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Since Rudenstine became President in 1991, Harvard's tuition increases have slowed from the double digit increases students saw in the early '80s. Still, one year as a Harvard undergraduate costs about the same as a Mercedes "C" class sedan...
...started in the 1950s, when, in order to administer Social Security funds, the U.S. government began entering records on big mainframe computers, using nine-digit identification numbers as data points. Then, even more than today, the citizenry instinctively loathed the computer and its injunctions against folding, spindling and mutilating. We were not numbers! We were human beings! These fears came to a head in the late 1960s, recalls Alan Westin, a retired Columbia University professor who publishes a quarterly report Privacy and American Business. "The techniques of intrusion and data surveillance had overcome the weak law and social mores that...
...long, the de facto helmsman races in and out, trying out bits of his Wednesday speech. He is aware of the naysaying, that Apple, with its single-digit market share, is doomed to fall before the Goliath of Microsoft. At Macworld, he will stress instead Apple's domination of education and desktop publishing. He fiddles with a paper clip as he thinks out loud...
Radcliffe entered Sprints with wins over MIT, Cornell, Syracuse, Yale, Rutgers and B.U. but was clearly a step behind the real powers in the sport. Princeton and Brown had dominated Radcliffe, posting double-digit margins of victory...
...finally got Senator Feinstein's Social Security number too, for free, from Glen Roberts' famous Stalker's Home Page. He'd obtained it through a private investigator and published it a few months ago. Armed with that golden nine-digit key, I paid Find a Friend $40 to rush me the top portion of her credit report from Equifax. I'd lend her money, if I had any left...