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...what that something was may be hard to pinpoint. Of the six launch fiascoes, three involved new, profit-driven rockets: the bulked-up Delta 3, with twice the lift-off muscle of its Delta 2 ancestor; and the Athena 2, a smaller rocket with less propulsive oomph but a bargain price tag. The most recent Titan flub appears to involve misfirings of the rocket's upper stage, a $1.23 billion mistake that may have been caused by badly loaded software. Other miscues have included everything from an electrical short, which caused another Titan to explode, to faulty guidance, which similarly...
...owns 8.6% of CMGI. "The Web world has one set of rules and the rest of the world has another." In other words, something's got to give. Last week some of CMGI's investors took their money off the table, and CMGI traded as low as $185 before bargain hunters--and only in the Net world is $200 a share a bargain--drove it back up. It finished the week...
Perhaps Harvard never wanted female undergraduates to begin with. But we were part of the bargain and we deserve what Radcliffe gave us, and more. Harvard has more resources than Radcliffe does and should therefore be able to fulfill more of our needs as women undergraduates with women's experiences. The unawareness of undergraduates about issues such as sexual assault on this campus can be changed with events like Take Back the Night. The lack of knowledge of most students here on what Radcliffe did for them, and what Harvard could do for them (with some serious pushing by undergraduates...
...Advanced Study is unlikely to benefit students directly, because it will offer only non-degree educational programs. It will have its own dean and a fair amount of autonomy, but no students. It will have workshops, symposia, colloquia and brown-bag lunches, but at $300 million, it's no bargain...
Professors at public universities are not necessarily entitled to bargain collectively with their employers over their workloads, according to a decision of the Supreme Court last month...