Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took them a while, but the computer and consumer-electronics industries finally did the math. Although roughly a third of U.S. homes have entered the PC age, almost every American owns a TV--making the boob tube, at least theoretically, the ideal vehicle for bringing the Internet to a mass market. Now Palo Alto, California-based WebTV has teamed with Sony and Philips to roll out low-cost, Internet-TV browsing terminals that plug easily into television and phone lines. Then even the most byte-shy technophobe can surf the Net and enjoy the convenience of E-mail...
...college, libraries are more than places to check out books or do research; they are essential extensions of our study space. Unlike the "real world," we're not able to work as late as we choose in our homes, with the lights, heat and radio on, maintaining ideal study conditions even in the dead of night. In our dorm rooms, even if no one's talking, trying to read with pillows temptingly few inches away is not easy. Worse still, Harvard's heating authorities, who presumably retire to their own warm bedrooms each evening, have insanely decreed that room temperatures...
...matter what your values are, I strongly urge you to devote some of your talent...to promoting your ideal of justice," she said...
...staff ignores a crucial aspect of any ideal disciplinary structure by neglecting to propose an honor code for Harvard. Everyone on campus would benefit from an atmosphere in which students are considered responsible enough to judge their own actions. Under the current system, the Administrative Board plays the role of wrist-slapping parent to erstwhile children; under a system with an honor code, the disciplinary body would necessarily include students and be more of a peer review. Harvard would be making a great contribution to the world if it instituted an honor code whereby students signed an ethical contract upon...
Samuel O. Their, a colleague of Martin's and the chief executive officer of Partners Health Care System, a conglomerate encompassing Mass. General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals, said Martin was "the ideal candidate...