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Brandeis style was to draft long memorandums, and feed them indirectly to government bureaucrats: he often forwarded such written position papers to Frankfurter, then (in the 1920s) a Harvard Law Professors who could and often did insert Brandeis arguments under his and other names in the Harvard Law Review. It was Brandeis who urged Frankfurter to write John Maynard Keynes asking him to address Roosevelt publicly helping further the massive public works projects Brandeis favored so strongly Frankfurter's style was to schedule meetings with prominent leaders--using a Supreme Court office that many of his aides never knew about...
...referring to his Apple II: "It was something I had used all semester. I was comfortable with it." His classmates were not. They worried not only about the computer's faster typing and editing time but also about the machine's ability to store key information and insert prewritten paragraphs at the push of a button. John Downer, 24, maintains that his Osborne computer did not give him an edge, but admits: "It could become the 20th century equivalent of a note on the shirt cuff." Bowing to the law school's dictum, Downer will be writing...
...illusion that authors were still required to prove themselves to their audiences, and not the reverse. He told stories as if daring any of his listeners to nod off or leave the room. "It happened like this," he would begin urgently. When he sensed impending restlessness, he would insert a "To make a long story short" and pick up the pace, He practiced this old-fashioned bardic art for so long that it began to look brand...
...proposed cable television system would include a two-way communication capability, possibly allowing Harvard and other institutions to insert programming into the general cable system...
Take away Bain. and Desaulniers--"I came to the decision I wasn't getting the fullest out of the quote. Harvard experience."--insert Boyum. and you have largely the same group that a year ago dropped only one dual match (Princeton) and captured the intercollegiate six-man championship. Undeniably, the squad is talented and a potential favorite to unseat Princeton and regain the nine-man title it gave up last year...