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...tree in Tokyo - located in the Yasukuni Shrine, the Shinto place of worship better known for the controversy over its enshrinement of Japan's war dead - would begin to blossom on March 18. But that forecast had to be hastily revised last week, when officials discovered that a computer glitch had thrown off the prediction. As programming errors go, this was just slightly less catastrophic than the NASA mistake that caused the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter to take a header into the Red Planet in 1999. Chastened officials apologized on national TV, and changed the forecast to March...
...comments. The deletion garnered critics on both the left and right who said she was pandering to Edwards, a former Senator from North Carolina, where Duke is located and where he has based his campaign. The Edwards campaign and its supporters made matters worse by claiming that a technical glitch, not Marcotte, had brought the controversial posts down. And Marcotte referred all interview requests to her new bosses, who declined to let the once prolific talker speak for herself...
...epee fencers showed a few more signs of weakness, despite pulling through a 7-2 win. Newly appointed captain Caitlin McLoon led the way, winning her first two bouts before being replaced by sophomore Elizabeth Bast, who faltered 5-4 after early frustration. The only other glitch came in the second set of bouts, in the form of senior Jasmine McGlade’s 5-4 loss. “Experience does play a role here,” Brand said. “In the epee we have two very solid fencers at the top who were...
While technicians are working to fix the glitch, "we don't have an estimate time when that's going to happen," Hien Van Do, a user assistant at FAS Computing Services, said shortly before...
...Winthrop resident Denise Lambert ’07 called the interruption an “outrage,” another Winthrop resident Julian A. Gingold ’07 said, “It’s inconvenient but I can’t fault them for a technical glitch.” “Harvard does not have an obligation to give us Internet access full-time,” he added...