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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more and more undergraduates acquire computers, administrators have begun to question whether the machines offer students who can afford them a distinct academic advantage. The dean said that he and the CCL will also discuss whether the University should lease computers to students who are unable to afford to purchase units, which typically range from...
When the party's over and the guests are gone, the work has just begun. Like the diligent host he is, President Derek C. Bok knew that he had to send thank-you notes to all the people who helped make Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration in September possible. Accordingly, he penned epistles to all of those students who ended their summer vacations early and came to Cambridge to participate in the three days of festivities...
Prevailing fashions in architecture, being fashions, tend to change course at just the moment they become mainstream doctrine. The effect (although not the intention, usually) is to make outsiders and stylistic slow learners scramble to catch up. Thus today, as the giant architectural firms have begun routinely gussying up their new high-rise towers in pseudoantique brica-brac -- fake Corinthian columns, pediments and pyramidal tops -- the cutting edge has glided past. As postmodern cliches become ubiquitous, in other words, the movement is becoming passe...
...product of the acquisition binge has been a surge in insider trading. Only in recent weeks has Wall Street begun to recover from its worst- ever scandal, when last spring Dennis Levine, a managing director of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, admitted to using insider tips on takeover bids to trade in the shares of 54 companies. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the deals earned him $12.6 million in illegal profits. Levine pleaded guilty to four criminal counts and awaits sentencing. Eventually, four other Wall Streeters were tainted in the same scandal...
There is considerable irony in the retreat by individuals. Virtually all of the stock market's current volatility has been made possible by computers. And these in turn were originally installed at New York's Big Board to offer easier, cheaper trading to tempt back small investors who had begun to flee to bonds and money-market accounts during the high-inflation '70s. In all, the Big Board spent $200 million on its modernization during the past five years. When the stock market perked up again starting in the early 1980s, the major institutional investors quickly spotted the advantages...