Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reunions have their good sides, however. Tonight the class of '64 will enjoy a night alone with the Boston Pops. The alums will not only have Symphony Hall to themselves, but Storrow Dr. will also be closed so Harvard buses can travel in tandem to the event. And when members of the 50th reunion hear the Pops on Tuesday, some will find a familiar face in conductor Leonard Bernstein...
...would like to come back, but just to be realistic, I'm not sure they would want me," MacFarland said in the interview. "I reluctantly understand their position. This event wouldn't effect my ability to judge scholarship, but it might undermine the committee's mandate...
Later this year Aprex, a company based in Fremont, Calif., will begin marketing a high-tech medicine bottle designed to help doctors make sure that patients obey orders. Called MEMS (for medication event monitoring system), the container comes with a tiny computer chip embedded in its cap. When the patient takes off the cap to remove a pill, the chip records the day and time. At the patient's next checkup, the doctor can ask for the bottle back. Then the physician inserts the cap into a special electronic machine that analyzes the data contained in the chip and lets...
...eclipsed by the rebellion was the Sino-Soviet summit, an event whose significance dropped to that of a sizable footnote. What was intended as an elaborate celebration of China's assured and independent standing and the Soviet Union's new civility in the international arena became incidental entertainment beside the pro-democracy demonstrations. Early on, Mikhail Gorbachev quipped about his comeuppance. At a meeting with President Yang, the Soviet President remarked, "Well, I came to Beijing and you have a revolution...
...most Americans. That may , change with the televised debate. It appears that many people are just beginning to understand that the Speaker is at the top of our political structure along with the President and the Chief Justice of the U.S. An assault on his authority is a historic event. No Speaker has been forced from office because of personal scandal. The autocratic Joe Cannon was stripped of much of his power back in 1910, and he withered away. But that was a sheer political play by fed-up House members...