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...system itself is the “safety net” intended to provide power during the few minutes the electrical power grid may suddenly fail, according to Harvard Computer Society president Joshua A. Kroll ’09. The system also provides a “blip in power” if officials briefly shut down the data center for electrical work, he said...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: FAS IT Undergoes Needed Renovation | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...curriculum does not exist in the abstract,” Kirby said. “This will succeed or fail according to the quality of courses and teaching and learning...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Given Uncertain Mandate, Gen Ed Takes Shape | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...hardest lessons of Harvard, or maybe any college, is learning that institutions, credos, and people can and will fail you. But from that disappointment comes the great satisfaction of discovering happiness in spite of shortcomings and pride in individual actions. I still believe in the Catholic faith and the principles of social justice even if I disagreed with their proponents at Harvard; I am not waving the feminist banner or joining any newspaper masthead because I am uncomfortable with organizational flaws, but I still want to support individuals working for Hillary or the Gray Lady...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore | Title: My So-Called Senior Year | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...fall of 1957, the dean of freshmen told the incoming class to relax—only three percent of them would fail...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Portrait: Robert E. Rubin ’60 | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...gloss off Obama and encourage voters to see the presumptive Democratic nominee for what, Republicans say, his record shows he is - a conventional liberal proposing conventionally liberal solutions to the nation's problems. "The wrong change looks not to the future but to the past for solutions that have failed before and will surely fail us again," McCain said Tuesday. "I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas. Like others before him, he seems to think government is the answer to every problem; that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Sells His Kind of Change | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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