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This much is beginning to emerge from the fog of claims and counterclaims: while there are more than a few fatalists like May, most of the folks responsible for fixing the nation's electronic infrastructure actually think we're going to make it into the next millennium with only minor, if any, disruptions of vital services. There are technical reasons for their saying so, and probably a few public relations ones too. But the primary motivator may be that those companies have survival instincts of their own. "There's no way to overestimate how important this problem...
...what is it, you just apply there separately?" one woman asks. I feign ignorance, waiting to hear what the pre-frosh have to say for themselves, and immediately the conversation dissolves into a fog of misinformation. But eventually one woman voiced an opinion that the crowd accepts as authoritative: She's pretty sure that Radcliffe doesn't give any classes; the most important thing about it, from what she's heard, is that it's a good place to get set up for internships...
...recent months, this page has featured several editorials about the lack of political motivation on campus, most of them arguing that a general air of apathy hangs over this place like a thick fog. But even more troubling than the state of political activism at Harvard is the sensation that this trend of apathy has begun, ever so insidiously, to creep into our classrooms...
...smiled proudly as he showed me his work. It was indeed quite beautiful...for a painting, but it paled in comparison to the living scene before my eyes: a silken shimmer of pastel clouds clinging in tendrils to the tops of mountains, an endless dance of wind and fog that alternately revealed and concealed subtle changes in the dark hills beneath. How futile it must feel for a mere mortal to try to capture that, I thought...
Russian novelist Tatyana Tolstaya's most recent book is Sleepwalker in the Fog...