Word: clacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both brothers, known to the American public as"Click and Clack," are MIT graduates...
...yards west of the Science Center stands a welcome haven for those with nowhere else to turn. With its beautiful high ceilings and cozy study nooks, Harvard Law School's (HLS) Langdell Library would seem to be the perfect solution. If you can stand the clackety-clack of those ubiquitous computer terminals and are willing to refrain from socializing with everyone else who has also "discovered" Langdell, you're golden. That Bible sourcebook might get read after...
...issued, and it is up to you answer it. This year MIT has chosen Thomas L. Magliozzi and Raymond F. Magliozzi to speak at its graduation, two men you've probably never heard of. Neither, to be honest, had we. These two men are better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. respected Cambridge auto mechanics and MIT graduates. They are also co-hosts of Car Talk, a syndicated radio program broadcast from the offices of Dewey, Cheetham & Howe in Harvard Square (aka Car Talk Plaza...
...choice seems to be a deliberate mockery of the ordinary criteria for choosing commencement speakers. Neither Click nor Clack is a Nobel laureate; neither is a major world leader; neither an august academic. Why, then has one of the world's greatest universities chosen them? Well, probably because both of them are something you, with all due respect, are not reputed to be: funny...
They were recently inducted into the Radio Hallof Fame and maintain a syndicated newspaper columncalled "Click and Clack Talk Cars" as well as aWeb site...