Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sudduth and Graham have maintained that Morris did not intend for the program to get out of hand. MIT programmers who contained the attack at their facilities said a programming error, instructing the virus to reproduce itself in every 10th--instead of 10,000th--computer, led to its explosive growth and crashing of several systems. Without that error, friends said, the virus would have harmlessly lodged in a few computers, allowing Morris to track his creation's progress...
...more diverse community? Diversity at Harvard should be measured the same way it is in society: by race and socioeconomic class. Athletic skill does not fall under those categories, and it's difficult to see how Harvard can pursue the goal of a diverse student body on the one hand, and give preference to athletes (and alumni children) on the other...
...Math Department's musical vibrancy is not only suggested on office doors. One math graduate student, when asked if he had musical interests, boasted of his growing prowess at "change-ringing," an experimental technique of ringing church and hand bells according to mathematical permutations...
Music and math may appeal to individuals who seek aesthetic beauty within a tight structural framework, suggests Mark Spivakovsky, a math junior fellow. "On the one hand, both are rigid and restrictive in structure," he says, "but on the other hand, there's something fantastically creative in both that is hidden...
Supporters of both candidates were on hand to observe the process, which switched 13 ballots to Graham and 79 to Thompson...