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...automatic recommendation many would make--that the alarmed family seek a loan--highlights for Lyman the problem of the "lend 'em $5,000 bucks and send 'em out the door approach," a strategy graduate students particularly rely on. "Whether a student can borrow an infinite amount of money is a real problem," Lyman says...
...Corporation's expressed devotion to precedent can also be a double-edged sword. Students were baffled earlier this year when it seemed as if the Corporation was trying to go back on the University's ban on doing business with banks which lend money to the South African government after it had sold $50 millions worth of certificates in Citibank which had made an ostensibly humanitarian loan to the apartheid regime...
...such time sharing schemes are extremely expensive, since they require open lines to the central computer. They also can become backed up at peak hours, and do not always lend themselves readily to what is the most intellectually demanding use of the computer: learning how to program it. For this, the inexpensive, easy-to-operate personal computer, entirely self-contained and relying on equipment immediately at the student's side, is an ideal instrument-much more "user friendly," as manufacturers like to say, than big machines. Yet even with a handy micro, programming can overwhelm the uninitiated. The programmer...
While my heart momentarily stops beating whenever a visitor expresses interest in one of my beloved books, I still continue to lend and share with others. Sometimes the books do come back to you, even if by accident. Once I lent a book to a friend who then lent it to someone else. Two years later I chanced upon it in the house of another friend, who thoughtfully asked me if I would like to borrow it. I told her yes, and brought it home...
...sidekick Rich grapples his way up the ladder to success. Betraying his friendship to More, he aids malicious attempts to blacken More's reputation with the King. T.H. Culhane gives his character appropriately rat-like and fidgety movements. Rich is not a man: he's a rodent. These roles lend themselves as do most of the others to clear-cut interpretations and motivations. More blocks Cromwell's and Rich's influence with the King. Therefore, More must be removed. And what better way than forcing a conflict between the two strong willed men. Henry and More, in which More...