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...DEQE's appellatory procedure has been delayed because Harvard and the opponents of the plant have not agreed on a hearings officer, Lashman said. The court case is a "back-up" appeal which Harvard will pursue if the DEQE does not reverse its decision, he added...
...first full recruiting year I got Mike Wilhite, Jeff Combs and Elmer Love," Penders said. Penders flew out to the coast to persuade Love to come to Morningside Heights over Stanford. Love, however, decided to take this year off, and back-up center Ed Shockley also left the team--to turn campus playwright--breaking his nose in practice...
...person who makes those curious, almost nonsensical lyrics work with his eerie back-up vocals is Waylon Jennings, almost as if Hank Sr. himself was back there howling into the 24-track tape machine. Jennings also produced this album, and to him must be given credit for the lean, Austin-like sound--this is the first Hank Jr. album in which he has gotten away from Nashville's slick guitar tracks and banks of strings that work for the Ronny Milsaps of the world. Waylon's bit in all this is interesting--he has an ego you could stretch from...
Waylon and Willie complement each other perfectly, trading lines and singing around each other. The back-up musicians are adequate, but those two voices are what makes the album. Waylon, Willie and Hank Jr. are like having three Cadillacs in a Muscle Shoals garage...
...Joseph Weizenbaum of M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science. Human dependence on computers, Weizenbaum argues, has already become irreversible, and in that dependence resides a frightening vulnerability. It is not just that the systems might break down; the remedy for that could eventually be provided by a number of back-up systems. Besides, industrialized man is already vulnerable to serious dislocations by breakdowns?when the electrical power of New York City goes out, for example. Perhaps a greater danger, says Weizenbaum, lies in the fact that "a computer will do what you tell it to do, but that...