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Take last Saturday. I was sitting in my room, doing one of those take-home labs that Physics 15b is wont to assign. I had just scared my finger on the soldering iron that I was less-than-deftly using when the phone rang. It was fellow Crimson sports editor Eric Brown...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Sideline Sidelights | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

...only know her through her work. In a courageous attempt to confront the burden of her mother's legacy and appease her own demons, author Linda Gray Sexton '75 has released her own memoirs, Searching for Mercy Street. Though Gray Sexton does not hesitate to point the proverbial finger at her mother, blaming her for a life out of a control, her cathartic opus is far from a "Mommie Dearest" for the literary set. Beneath the pile of dirty laundry lies a tale of unbounded resilience, a lesson in true independence...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: SEXTON ON SEXTON | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

...disclaimer has a purpose: it attempts to absolve Cambridge's elected leaders from any responsibility for choosing the smut that's on display. By appointing a committee of so-called artists to make that decision independently--and then pointing the finger at that committee when its choices are criticized--our representatives in City Hall have sought to insulate themselves from controversy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down With Porn | 10/12/1994 | See Source »

...search could even encompass the student.harvard.edu machines that is, undergraduates' personal computers. Only "finger" databases (which most undergrads don't have) are perused, however, so students need not fear that netfind will pry further into their systems. To try netfind yourself, telnet to ds.inter.net and log in as "netfind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLID | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

...internal "white pages," accessible only by members of the Harvard community (outsiders can extract only limited data from the directory). The database software is from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, and has been loaded with personal information about every student at a level of detail much greater than "finger" searchers can provide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLID | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

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