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Williams said that no action will be taken against the group by the very active undergraduate publication until the K-School magazine is published in mid-December. At that time, as one clever 'Poonie put it, "Our fancy-pants lawyer from New York will sue them for lunch money...
...computer owners most certainly constitute a socio-economic class. The Harvard Establishment, nonetheless, has forestalled the formation of class-consciousness among them by a clever, two-pronged strategy. First, through the process of cultural hegemony, the University has spread its cheery vision of the Computer Age so effectively that even those unable to afford computers have adopted its values...
...possible play and counterplay and choose the move that minimizes their opponent's gain. The Cray, scanning 100,000 chess moves per sec., can usually come up with a winner. Hitech lacks the Cray's huge memory and powerful processors, but it makes up for that with speed and clever play. Long-term strategy, for example, is controlled by a program named Oracle, which was created by Hans Berliner, an artificial- intelligence expert and former world correspondence-chess champion...
...used only on patients' body cells; it will not alter their sex cells, and hence cannot affect future generations. "It's not a way of altering the genetic pool," says A. Dusty Miller of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "It's just a novel and clever way of administering a drug." Of course, it is just of such novel and clever tricks that miracles are often made...
...international press on its "responsibility" to serve the world's political leadership. He reacted with aplomb as Mitterrand publicly announced his rejection of Gorbachev's proposal of separate arms negotiations with Britain and France. Finally, the Soviet leader issued a warning: "We don't want to be more clever than the < U.S., and we would advise them not to want to be more clever than...