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...there had to come a time when the fog would lift and everyone would have to talk about how much was known and why the system had failed; about what had been fixed since, what had not been and what could not be. The 9/11 commission hearings last week finally picked the lock on the most unsettling parts of the 9/11 attacks: how close the government had come to sensing the plot, how far it remained from being able to stop it and how little Americans knew of either tale until now. "There are a lot of problems leading...
True, we don’t have to wake up before the sun comes up to practice and lift, and most of us don’t punish our bodies with two-a-days under any circumstances. But let me tell you, battling other undergrads for an elliptical machine at the MAC ain’t easy either. And after I’m done with my grueling 30-minute workout, I do crunches...
...spirited spectators, sporting hats and shirts with slogans like “Tom’s Athletic Supporter” and “Girls Run Wild,” weren’t enough to lift the spirits of all participants...
...Crimson has battled through an up-and-down season that seemed to get a dramatic lift last weekend with impressive wins over the Big Green and the Bears. Particularly encouraging for Harvard was the play of its top two golfers, captain Andrew Klein and Wu. Both showed an ability to take advantage of scoring opportunities and put low numbers on the board, giving the Crimson what appeared to be a duo capable of matching the top two golfers from any other team...
DIED. JOSEPH ZIMMERMANN, 92, answering-machine inventor; in Brookfield, Wis. In 1948, when this U.S. Army Signal Corps veteran and enterprising engineer couldn't afford a secretary, he rigged up an 80-lb. contraption that used a lever to lift a phone receiver, a 78-r.p.m. record player to convey a personalized greeting, and a wire recorder to capture callers' 30-sec. messages. More than 6,000 of these "electronic secretaries" were in use by 1957, when he and a partner sold the patent to General Telephone Corp...