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When I was in high school, the headmaster would announce every year about this time that classes were canceled the next day, and that the whole school would climb Mount Monadnock. This is easier with a 400-person high school than it is with an 18,000 student university. (If Rudenstine were to cancel Friday's classes for a hike, how much of Monadnock would be left when we finished with...
...national symbols. Conservatives hailed the judge's ruling as a vindication of crusades against legitimizing homosexuality. Liberals denounced it as prejudice masquerading as jurisprudence. The case intensified heated questions resulting from the public emergence of homosexuals in American society: Are they just another oppressed minority, making the same arduous climb that faced so many other groups? Or are they morally and socially different? Is there -- and should there be -- a way to give homosexuals legal equality without compelling heterosexuals to endorse the equality of their life-style...
Finally, in late fiscal 1993, foreign stockprices resumed their strong climb. For the year,the benchmark Morgan Stanley EAFE-Free Index,which measures foreign equity performance,returned 18.25 percent, nearly seven points higherthan the Standard & Poor's 500 index of domesticstocks...
Finally, in late fiscal 1993, foreign stockprices resumed their strong climb. For the year,the benchmark Morgan Stanley EAFE-Free Index,which measures foreign equity performance,returned 18.25 percent, nearly seven points higherthan the Standard & Poor's 500 index of domesticstocks...
Playing in a MUD is like wandering through a literary maze. Scenes are sketched out in a phrase or two -- a woody glade, a drafty cave -- and you move from one to the other by typing commands: go west, climb up, enter castle. In your travels, you run into various objects (a giggling robot, a sleeping sloth) as well as other characters. These can be other players, logging on from a remote computer, or cleverly designed computer programs masquerading as humans. You can communicate with anyone you meet by either speaking (typing a message that appears on the other player...