Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish I had found more that was genuinely new, but for the most part, the $5 billion-a-year electronic-games industry is playing follow the leader. Shoot-'em-ups are modeled on Quake and Tomb Raider. Battle-strategy games behave like Warcraft. Flight simulators tend to resemble Microsoft's. To be sure, this year's new games are faster, smoother and compatible with accelerator cards that deliver superior 3-D effects. They also tend to require Olympian amounts of RAM. SimCity 3000, will need a minimum of 32 MB, though the payoff is splendidly rendered, 3-D, skyscraper-bejeweled...
...believe that it is our duty to calmly accept whatever the University has to offer at face value and not to question it every step of the way. Harvard, I like to think, is not in the business of sending out into the world mindless drones who will play follow the leader for the rest of their lives. Instead, it was my impression, Harvard means to instill in us the ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate everything around us so that we can uphold what needs upholding and challenge what needs changing...
...months to follow, the spotlightrarely left for long. On Dec. 7, a quiet Tuesdaynight in the slow time between Thanksgiving andChristmas, the Norwalk virus hit its first wave ofvictims, as first-years from Canaday toPennypacker quickly became...
...national media followed these developmentsalmost obsessively until word was leaked thatGrant had lied to her alumni interviewer. Grantwent to Tufts University, but the spotlight didnot follow her to Somerville...
...College did make several self-initiated advancements for women. While not touted as such, two appointments within the House system this past year increased the presence of women on campus. In the spring, Lewis appointed Diana L. Eck master of Lowell House, making her the only women to follow in the footsteps of Sandra Naddaff, the current master of Mather House. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, who will become master of Leverett House in the fall, is applauded for his longtime support of undergraduate women in the sciences...