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...Harvard Club of Boston is part of a network of organizations spawned by the first Harvard Club, which was founded in New York in 1835. Today 45 clubs dot the globe, with several branches in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. However, the Boston and New York clubs remain the only organizations that own and occupy their own buildings...
...reminding him of his breaches in psychiatric practice as well as his own unstable state of mind. Freud's witty, satirical comments do not ring true, though; instead, they remind us of Humphrey Bogart's advice to Woody Allen throughout Play It Again, Sam. Similar takeoffs from other films dot the rest of Lovesick as well, including Moore's sequences of drunkenness that mirror those in Arthur two years...
...even gloomier side to this already somber picture concerns safety. It is an unfortunate fact that as weight increases so does the accident fatality rate; everyone from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to the American Automobile Association agrees that the records of the high weight tandem trailers are particularly discouraging A DOT study done in 1982 demonstrated a disturbing 12.2 fatalities per million miles for tandems, considerably higher than the 5.6 per million miles for single trucks, and dwarfing the 2.96 per million rate for passenger cars. Despite these statistics, the ATA, which vigorously defends the safety record...
...dot strips away the legend...
Thankfully, the programmer does not have to worry about every electron and phosphor dot. He has enough on his hands typing his commands into the computer and testing them to see if they do what he meant them to do. Even a program for playing blackjack can quickly grow to be hundreds of lines long, each line densely packed with convoluted commands and alphanumerical characters. If there is even one character out of place in those hundreds of lines, chances are the program will not work properly. These software "bugs," as programming mishaps are called, can take weeks to find...