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...comes wrapped in hype, most of it directly traceable to Steven Jobs, former chairman of Apple. He loved to tell his designers that the computer they were building -- with its icons, its pull-down menus and its mouse -- would not only change the world, but also "put a dent in the universe." As if to hammer his point home to the rest of America, Jobs launched the new machine in January 1984 with the famously melodramatic commercial -- aired just once, during the Super Bowl -- in which a woman clad in a Mac T shirt smashed a screen image meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Mac Changed the World | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...might, the Crimson just couldn't dent the scoreboard; junior forward Perry Cohagen, still seeking his first goal of the year, had perhaps Harvard's best chance, but he was stone-walled by Lendzyk on a high wrister...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Icemen Stumble | 12/18/1993 | See Source »

Clinton will, of course, be unequal to the task. The assassination left Kennedy frozen in time, immune to criticism and free of the slow decline that awaits any politician in retirement. He lives on in a heroic legend that no later stories of his personal shortcomings can dent; it is an outline that even John F. Kennedy himself, were he alive today, could not fill...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Sharing in the Kennedy Mystique | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...rest of the game, it looked like the A's would dominate. Dave Stewart pitched well for Oakland, and in the second inning, Canseco lined a grand slam home run that left a dent in NBC's centerfield camera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Serious Business | 10/15/1993 | See Source »

Scott was one of a dwindling number of high-ranking vestiges of the administration of former Presi- dent Derek C. Bok. After he leaves, only two offive vice presidents appointed by Bok will remain:Vice President for Administration Sally H.Zeckhauser and Vice President for Alumni Affairsand Development Fred L. Glimp...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Finance V.P. Scott To Leave Harvard | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

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