Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ghost of Bradstreet (who once lived in the building which now houses the Tasty) might well have been smiling down on Saturday's proceedings. Led by Lewis, President Neil L. Rudenstine, former President of the Board of Overseers Renee M. Landers '77, Undergraduate Council President Lamelle D.Rawlins '99 and Porter University Professor Helen Vendler took turns sharing their thoughts on the day and the dedication. Rudenstine clearly placed the significance of the event in Harvard's history. Rawlins highlighted the difference in the position of women at Harvard in 1976 and now in 1997: "We're breaking glass ceilings. They...
...GHOST SITES...
...months the battered Mir space station has been as much a ghost ship as a spaceship. Even as its crews have continued to live and work in four of its aging modules, its fifth--the once glittering Spektr lab--has remained dark and cold, ruptured by a collision with a cargo ship in June...
...that orbital excursion, though just when it will take place and whether he'll actually participate is still undecided. NASA officials firmly state, however, that as long as Mir stays sound, they will proceed with plans to send astronaut David Wolf up to relieve Foale in late September. Ghost ship or not, Mir will apparently sail...
None of this would bother me in the least, I suspect, if a few years ago, my phone, like Marley's ghost, hadn't given me a glimpse of the nightmares to come. On Thanksgiving weekend in 1995, someone (presumably a critic of a book my wife and I had just written about computer hackers) forwarded my home telephone number to an out-of-state answering machine, where unsuspecting callers trying to reach me heard a male voice identify himself as me and say some extremely rude things. Then, with typical hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people to leave their...