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Thus, the plethora of committees and task forces devoted to the solemn tasks of establishing computer "priorities" and exploring new computer "possibilities." Thus, the frantic rush to put together the requisite software so that the Mac can be used in computer science courses this fall. Thus, the talk about how Harvard is going to link up all these pe's so that students can talk to each other, retrieve large chunks of information from data banks, and otherwise precipitate the next Scientific Revolution...
...franc and the Italian lira. The surge has helped to propel American tourists abroad in ever growing numbers. Applicants at the 13 U.S. passport agencies have had to wait up to eight hours this summer just to reach the counter, and clerks have been working six-day weeks. The frantic pace should outstrip last year's, when U.S. travelers made a record 25.3 million trips abroad...
...final burst of masochism this week, Mondale planned a "fly around" finale: a red-eye commercial flight from Los Angeles to Newark (E.T.A. 3:30 a.m.), a frantic last flurry of speechifying in New Jersey (107 delegates), followed by a flight back across the country to California (306 delegates)-via campaign stops in West Virginia (35 delegates) and New Mexico (23)-all in less than 24 hours...
...reject entirely the idea of the University, of scholarship, of study. Yet at the same time, there were books that we wanted desperately to read, and which I, at least, could not understand alone. I remember trying to acquire on my own a certain philosophical culture, and how frantic and depressed I became at my failure. What we needed and wanted, in the end, was not less University but more. Our most serious failing was not to have recognized that, and not to have used our momentum to try to improve the University. The exception was our third demand...
...found. But you can almost forgive Bulliet's condescension--he is, after all, a professor, who teaches Middle East history at Columbia. Moreover, he weaves such an engaging tale of espionage and international whoop-dee-do that the actual details aren't quite as important as the frantic pace and the heart-in-your-throat situations...