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Harvard entered the third period with characteristic intensity. A save and steal by Beber was followed by a backhand goal by Richards. Eighteen seconds later, Mike Jackson fired a goal for MIT to keep the deficit at seven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquadudes Dunk MIT, 17-9 | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

...solid as he expected. In a recent poll of likely Massachusetts voters done by KRC Research of Cambridge for the Boston Herald and WBZ-TV, Dukakis led Vice-President Bush by a mere 43 percent to 39 percent--well within the five point margin of error. Eighteen percent of the poll respondents were undecided...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Mass. Republicans Rejoice | 10/12/1988 | See Source »

Dalton, a CLS adherent, received support from a majority of the faculty, including Vorenberg, but not the two-thirds she needed for tenure. Eighteen professors subsequently petitioned Bok for a review, charging the Law School faculty with political bias...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Vorenberg Resigns as Law School Dean | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...Dictionary does not have this word, but I was reassured to find it in Webster.) I do not now feel happy walking among the coarse hummocks of a grassy hill. I do not like walking in the dark at all. When I was a young student of seventeen or eighteen, I remember crossing the Umsindusi River near Pietermaritzburg on the stepping-stones. I didn't walk, I ran. Today I would fall into the river at the first stone. I have grown very lethargic. I am writing this piece quite easily, but it has taken me a week to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Literary Remembrance | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...Eighteen months ago scarcely a handful of these systems existed in business and government. Now there are an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 in daily use, and the number is increasing by 50% annually. They grew out of much touted artificial-intelligence research into human decision making in the 1960s and '70s. AI thus far has failed to reduce human intelligence to hardware and software. But in the quest to build machines that see, move, communicate and think like humans, AI has produced offshoots with evident commercial potential. Says Herbert Schorr, who spearheads IBM's efforts to commercialize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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