Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even among those who are aware that something big is on the way, there is gnawing concern that telephone service will suffer. Says Yale Professor Stephen Ross, an expert on telecommunications: "We may be trading in a Cadillac for a Ford...
...Suppose I told you," the Pentagon briefing expert boasted to a roomful of officers, "that on this raggedy clump of hills and beaches, we are going to humiliate one of the most arrogant powers in the world today...
Father George Tavard, a French Catholic expert on Protestantism who teaches in Ohio and has this month published Justification: an Ecumenical Study (Paulist; $7.95), notes that "today many Catholic scholars think Luther was right and the 16th century Catholic polemicists did not understand what he meant. Both Lutherans and Catholics agree that good works by Christian believers are the result of their faith and the working of divine grace in them, not their personal contributions to their own salvation. Christ is the only Savior. One does not save oneself." An international Lutheran-Catholic commission, exploring the basis for possible reunion...
Alan B. Langerman '85, a Harvard computer expert, reacted to the Cornell caper with a chuckle. "Security precautions make me laugh when I read about them," he said this week, explaining. "There guys didn't know enough. There are ways so cover your tracks. It's a contest of programming skill between the guys who are trying to break in and the guys who are trying to catch them... The latter are getting a lot better...
...lives intellectually, emotionally and practically: Electronic Life (Knopf; 211 pages; $12.95). Author Michael Crichton is no self-anointed microprocessor guru but the Harvard Medical School graduate turned bestselling author (The Andromeda Strain) and movie director (Coma, The Great Train Robbery). It turns out that Crichton is also a computer expert of sorts. He wrote his senior thesis at Harvard in 1963 on a mainframe and has since created a computer adventure game and designed software programs for cost analysis and shooting-schedule planning in the movie business...