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Midterms. Mid-semester research papers. The senior thesis. That time of year at or around spring break when everything seems to come crashing down at once. Just imagine if your computer crashed too. No, it's not the Y2K bug, but it's just as sinister. On March 31, Harvard's license with Microsoft to distribute multiple copies of Microsoft software expires. That means that anyone who's ever installed Microsoft Office from the network will be coming back from Spring Break tanned, rested and ready to rock--but horrified to find that they are no longer able to even...
...spine-tingling glimpse into a technocratic future, watch 1985's Brazil at the Brattle Theatre. The Y2K bug is small fries compared to this depiction of a computer error and its ramifications on a bureaucrat's life. The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle...
Unfortunately, the Y2K bug itself pales in comparison to disgruntled space aliens or meteors the size of the Lone Star State. After all, the world would be hard-pressed to watch a hastily assembled team of elite MIT techies furiously debugging code. But it won't be long before the Hollywood writers view the Y2K problem as the next great feel-good flick. And for those of us who can't get enough, the sequel is only another thousand years away...
CATCHING THE MOVIE BUG--Richard S. Lee; THE SPORTING CHANCE--Alan E. Wirzbicki
...early-to-bed town of farmers was bug-eyed when the case broke, but few people in Champagne-Mouton knew Einhorn, a man who spoke little French and was seldom seen except to pick up his International Herald Tribune twice a week at the village newsstand. A pile of the papers ordered for him sits there now. At the nearby police station, the gendarme who knocked on Einhorn's door wonders if ever again he will see "FBI" on the same line as "Champagne-Mouton" in the papers. There hasn't been a single crime in the village since Einhorn...