Word: efforts
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...attempted to restore their papers and the supercilious comments of their peers. The number of students who do, indeed, back up every assignment they have on a disk is quite small. Harvard students prize efficiency, and so due to the rarity of complete computer failure, not many expend the effort required to insert a disk...
...most have jury-rigged their hard drive to give access to their files, that thought fades away. What are the chances of another virus striking Harvard again this year? Life at Harvard goes on, and the future prevention of lost paper disasters still isn't considered worth the effort required to back up one's entire hard drive. DANCING IN TOYLAND-Meredith B. Osborn; COMPUTER VIRUS WOES-Breezy H. Tollinger
...THAT AFTER SUBJECTING US TO INVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES, MTV MIGHT HAVE LET us move inside and out of the rain. No such luck. We still have one more hour on the sidewalk. Now, however, we are out on Broadway beneath the windows of the MTV studios, and in an effort to suck every last drop of free publicity out of our suffering, we are offered "Wannabee a VJ" signs to carry while we wait. We decline the honor, but those around us embrace their servitude with glee...
...better reading programs. Public schools are in great need of improvement. We have a system in place that has the potential to provide good education for all Americans; we're just not using it. The answer does not lie in dismantling this system, but in investing a serious effort, every year and everywhere, to make it work...
...better reading programs. Public schools are in great need of improvement. We have a system in place that has the potential to provide good education for all Americans; we're just not using it. The answer does not lie in dismantling this system, but in investing a serious effort, every year and everywhere, to make it work. JANE H. MARTIN '00 April...