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...begin my case history in a rather idyllic setting--Harvard Yard at midnight, covered in freshly fallen snow. A few weeks ago when winter was still winter, some friends and I decided to recapture the abandon of childhood by frolicking in the winter wonderland. Unfortunately, we made a fatal error. Our recreation included some playful snowball tossing. Across the Yard some fellow students caught notice of this apparently provocative activity. The observers descended from their dorms to take up the contest...
...Coop explained it: a certain number of books are ordered for a course based on an estimate (and if the estimating process is at all similar to the one that assigns classes to rooms based on expected enrollment, it seems likely there is a large margin of error here). Everyone decides to take this course. Everyone comes in and buys all the books. The Coop orders more books for all the students who find the class late. Then everyone drops the course and returns the books. Now the Coop has paid for an extra shipment of books and now must...
...thoughtful promise to "seriously consider" what he called "the public information function." How could a Washington denizen like Starr so grossly underestimate his own significance as the head of the Whitewater crusade? Starr protested his innocence, saying it had taken "consultations with my professional colleagues" to show him the error of his ways. There are times when Malibu just has to wait...
...Yorker nearly died in 1925, the year it was born. Indeed, it did die for one day, before its patron reconsidered. The magazine at the time had a paltry circulation of 2,700--perhaps, as James Thurber once pointed out, because it started out so sophomoric and error prone. I'm not saying Stim could ever have grown into the New Yorker. Or maybe I am. The point is, we will probably never know...
...surprised that it's news at all," said Olney, who plans to file the form today. "It was a human error...