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There is some evidence against David's notion that in the eyes of younger people everyone born before the Inchon landing melds together into a single blob of undifferentiated old coot. There is, for instance, my favorite theory about why Ronald Reagan, the most successful oldie-but-goodie candidate in recent times, did so poorly in the Iowa caucuses in 1980, compared with 1976--a theory quickly forgotten after he reclaimed his microphone and his future in New Hampshire...
Forgive us, but whenever the monthly cry of 'reform' strikes the Undergraduate Council, we have to be a little bit skeptical. Past attempts to define and remedy the essential problems of the council all seem to meld in our minds into the same amorphous blob, long on talk and short on action. We sincerely hope that the new day trumpeted by the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) actually sees fruition. Until then, it has the awful burden of reform's history to overcome...
...internet," says TIME's Joshua Quittner. "The stocks have doubled for every internet-related company over the past year." Butis Netscape, as many investors hope, the next Microsoft? Much like Microsoft did with its Windows operating system, Quittner notes, "Netscape is like this big blob that just absorbs everything -- Real Audio and Adobe Acrobat are two examples -- into its system. And Netscape has had a pretty big start on every one else in the browser business...
...Leverett painting serves as something to talk about while eating. Leverett resident Amnon A. Bar-Ilan '96 says that he and his friends spent much of last year "making secret conspiracies to do bad things to the painting. Like spray paint it. Or peel the paint off one blob at a time and see if the master noticed...
...Mark Eaton of the Utah Jazz just this week retired (and God bless him) from basketball--a true blob with tall arms and long legs if ever there were one. Maybe his next calling is to manage...