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...verified, certified, card-carrying addict, when I learned that I was going to go to Harvard with its $5.1 billion endowment, my first thought wasn't, "Oh, now my education can flourish under the unique Harvard Experience." My first thought was, "World Better computer systems...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Harvard's Computer Wasteland | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

This is the lament of the computer addict. Woe be unto all ye hackers who choose Harvard! Beware the flickering terminal! Dread the OIT bureaucracy! Clutch thy IBM to thy bosom...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Harvard's Computer Wasteland | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

Harvard has contrived to make an undergraduate computer-addict's life miserable. What a senseless waste of $5.1 billion...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Harvard's Computer Wasteland | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...larger, if entirely inchoate, ambitions. They have invested John with a real problem -- alcoholism -- and they have plunked the Learys down on a block that is a sort of dumping ground for the damned of the lower middle class. Among their new neighbors are a neo-Nazi, a drug-addict mom who dies of an overdose and someone who keeps a pack of killer Dobermans in the yard next door. For a family teetering on the brink of dysfunction, this environment seems bound to push them over the edge. Sure enough, Dylan, the younger son, is kidnapped and rendered speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Intentions | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...underappreciated and misunderstood." L.A. lawyer David Carleton had his teeth loosened by a client who didn't like his plea arrangement. Manhattan's Judith White needs all seven days of the week to handle her load of drug cases -- a task she continues to tackle even since a crack addict murdered her father four years ago. When Lynne Borsuk filed a motion with Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court seeking to reduce her load of 122 open cases, she was demoted to juvenile court. She was lucky; others have been fired for similar actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of the Public Defender | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

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