Word: brethrens
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Once exclusively an accoutrement of globe-trotting execs, laptop computers are fast becoming as familiar as their desktop brethren. Everyone from hackers to housewives sees portables as must-have accessories, and manufacturers are jumping on the cash wagon, pushing out dozens of models stuffed with the latest features. How hot is the market? Hitachi, which didn't even sell laptops in the U.S. last year, expects to sell $150 million worth in 1996. At right, three of the slickest new machines...
...Bozzotto pledged that Boston laborers would join with their Harvard brethren in "long-term disruptions and civil disobedience tactics" on campus if the University does not bargain in good faith...
...being greedy, and make no mistake, they are. But their co-conspirators and enablers are legion: politicians, corporations, economists, fans, journalists. Sportswriters who once thought the designated hitter was the end of civilization now dismiss the old ball parks as inconvenient anachronisms. Tiger Stadium? "Bad neighborhood," say my brethren. Fenway Park? "Hey, it's a sardine can." Yankee Stadium? "Bad neighborhood and no parking...
...response is nearly always one of admiration and of awe: not for the German cause, but for the fact that in victory Harvard was magnanimous enough, secure enough and convinced enough of its own deals to recall these dead not as strangers or as enemies but as separated brethren. It moves us beyond the syndrome of "win/lose" and into the realm of tragedy and hope. A university that finds these ideals too risky to express is itself at risk...
Were you not studying physics at Lamont last Monday evening, you could have been jostling with other naked men in underwear-only sumo wrestling at the Owl. How it would have released you to satisfy your repressed homoerotic fantasies as well as those of your brethren. Oh, to be naked scum on a Monday evening...