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...Chapter 1934 of the great visitors book which men call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...
Coke's peaceful near-conquest of the world is one of the remarkable phenomena of the age. It has put itself (in the phrase of a Coca-Cola executive) "always within an arm's length of desire." And where there is no desire for it, Coke creates desire. Its advertising, which garnishes the world from the edge of the Arctic to the Cape of Good Hope, has created more new appetites and thirsts in more people than an army of dancing girls bearing jugs of wine. It has brought refrigeration to sweltering one-ox towns without plumbing...
...less lonely than most, she died on the lowest and saddest of notes. Returning to her Hollywood motel room after a late-night recording session and some hard drinking with friends at a nearby bar, she apparently filled a hypodermic needle with heroin and shot it into her left arm. The injection killed...
Dara Horn's piece "God and the CS Student" (Opinion, Feb. 17) discusses RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury). Harvard has a number of resources available to students dealing with this problem. Briefly, if a student experiences pain or numbness in his or her hand, wrist or arm while using a computer keyboard, the student should stop typing, and see a primary care physician at the University Health Services...
...from favor because it was disorderly and unpredictable--ill suited to the kind of dispassionate reflection government is supposed to require. In a real town meeting the balance tends to tip toward the fellow with the loudest voice--the crank with the thickest sheaf of mimeographed papers under his arm. The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space for sober decision making by people the voters had chosen to make decisions for them...