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...just yet; give a little more time.' But from what the opposition has said so far, they won't accept it. They're planning a massive rally for Wednesday, to claim their first-round victory. And if they remain united and firm, Milosevic could still instruct his electoral officials to produce a final result that reflects Kostunica's first-round victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Milosevic Has Taken an Important Psychological Step' | 9/26/2000 | See Source »

Though the Summer School elicits teaching assistance from each College department in the fall, few Harvard professors are available to instruct for the summer...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer School Looks Off Campus for Professors | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

...Taking his cues from Cambridge and Oxford, Lowell devised a "tutorial" system that would pair undergraduates with a scholar from their field of study. That tutor would live in the House and, for three years, instruct the young student in his discipline in preparation for oral exams at the end of the senior year. "The relation between the mature scholar and the student will be made less remote," he explained. The Houses would thereby be much more than the communities in which students at the College lived; they were to be the lynchpin of Harvard's academic program...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rise and Fall of the Houses | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

When pre-frosh decide to attend Harvard, they know that they are not choosing a school with a small and intimate liberal arts setting, where tenured professors instruct every section and student-Faculty interaction is the rule rather than the exception. There are drawbacks to attending a school as acclaimed, as competitive and as large as Harvard. Students suffer because Harvard professors are more interested in personal research than in personal interaction with undergraduates...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Taking Our Profs Out to Dinner | 6/6/2000 | See Source »

After the aircraft landed safely at California's Edwards Air Force Base last December, its onboard computer was to instruct the plane to taxi along the runway at about 15 m.p.h. Instead, the computer commanded the jet-powered drone to taxi at 180 m.p.h. The aircraft zoomed--to about 90 m.p.h.--before it careered off the runway, smashed its landing gear and collapsed into a sandy hill, causing $5.3 million in damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon Capers | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

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