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Even though the Corporation missed appointing an academic, they still could have done more to broaden their collective experience. Other universities boast senators, cardinals and federal judges on their governing boards. Harvard maintains a diverse crop on its board of Overseers, but they have so little power that they weren't even informed when former provost Jerry R. Green resigned or when Rudenstine took a medical leave of absence...
...most damning -- and noteworthy -- critiques are coming from a crop of new books written by people who have spent a few years (or in some cases a few decades) in cyberspace and know whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place...
...limited success against Southern California, Pepperdine and UCLA, however, was more indicative of the strength of the California teams than any particular weakness in the Crimson. With the California squads representing the cream of the NCAA men's tennis crop, Harvard got a taste of men's tennis that no teams in the east could give...
...need to be plugged in to generate electricity, saysTIME music critic Christopher John Farley, and the new installments ofMTV's almost-all-acoustic showcaseprove it. The picks of the new crop: Courtney Love's band Hole, the Cranberries and Live. All air in April. "They're all worth watching," says Farley. "The show's just been getting better and better. It's really established itself as a proving ground for a good group of rockers...
Nelson said the nation's wealth is in its natural resources--its crop lands, forests and grasslands. He said the U.S. must lead the world in creating, "a conservation ethic" in order to preserve these fragile environments...