Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House boasts an especially active Senior Common Room, whose talents the masters enlist to advise House residents. Faculty affiliates are rewarded with High Table, a dining experience The Crimson once termed "grotesquely ridiculous." Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin have been widely praised for carrying on the traditions of their 23-year famed predecessors, the Bosserts. Still, Eck has been known to cut loose; at a House karaoke night last semester, the professor of comparative religion and Indian studies belted out "Heartbreak Hotel...
Roger P. Antaki '99, 25, who lives off-campus, took two years off between his junior and senior years to enlist in the U.S. Army. Antaki says he wanted a real-world experience that Harvard's academic setting could not offer...
...onetime IBM whiz kid who wrote much of COBOL. "If Grace Hopper and I were at fault, it was for making the language so easy that anybody could get in on the act." And anybody did, including a group of Mormons in the late '50s who wanted to enlist the newfangled machines in their massive genealogy project--clearly the kind of work that calls for thinking outside the 20th century box. Bemer obliged by inventing the picture clause, which allowed for a four-digit year. From this point on, more than 40 years ahead of schedule, the technology was available...
...clinical genetics. "My job is centered almost as much on educating doctors as patients," says genetics counselor Michelle Fox of the UCLA Medical Center. If they uncover a genetic problem in patients, like a family history of muscular dystrophy in a couple who want a child, savvy physicians will enlist a trained specialist like Fox. These specialists can explore with the couple what it means to care for a child with muscular dystrophy (under improved treatment, such children can survive well into middle...
With bin Laden out of reach, the CIA launched a secret program to harass his network. Using its own informants plus the counterterrorism center's computers, which tracks passports worldwide, the CIA would spot bin Laden operatives in foreign countries, then quietly enlist the local security service to arrest or deport them and allow the agency to sift through materials left in their apartments. In many cases, the CIA didn't know "exactly what each person was doing," says an intelligence official, "just that he was doing something with a terror organization, so we should disrupt...