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...lighter note, the council passed a resolution congratulating the Harvard football team for its 37-20 victory over Yale on Saturday. Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, author of the order, invited all Cambridge citizens "to join in the cheering whether they like Harvard or whether they don't like Harvard...
This is not, of course, what I wanted to hear. After all, what right did this professor have to tell me how much work I should be doing? I could just as easily have chosen a lighter courseload and not had the problem of having to do two 10-pagers, a 12- to 15-page one, and a 30-page tutorial essay due for the end of the term, and he could not have done anything about...
American manufacturers eventually learned what the Japanese already knew: that new markets can be created by making things smaller and lighter. (The popular phrase in Japan is kei-haku-tan-sho -- light, thin, short and small.) Ten years ago, Black & Decker scored big when it shrank the household vacuum cleaner from a bulky 11.2 kg (30 lbs.) to a 0.75-kg (2-lb.) device dubbed the Dustbuster. Tandy and Apple Computers put the power of a room-size computer into something resembling a television-typewriter and created an industry worth $75 billion a year...
...lighter note, Danehy praised the outgoing Vellucci, who is seeking election to the School Board today after 34 years on the council...
...lighter moment yesterday, Kasparov turnedto the chess-playing aspects of his visit. He willbe in Cambridge until Monday on the last stop ofan American tour that included visits to New Yorkand Washington, D.C., and appearances on nationaltelevision...