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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alma Mater goes. Three hundred and fifty years of history, of people and buildings and dust is a lot to have to deal with. But for all that cumulative experience, Harvard is really only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past and an unwillingness to confront it head...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Endpaper: Frozen Out of Widener | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...Alma Mater goes. Three hundred and fifty years of history, of people and buildings and dust is a lot to have to deal with. But for all that cumulative experience, Harvard is really only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past and an unwillingness to confront it head...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: FROZEN OUT OF WIDENER | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...frivolous for the administration and the proponents of the restoration to claim that the $4 million is spare money. There are plenty of demands to be met; these demands must be vocalized and the administration must be willing to listen. An aesthetic enhancement, perhaps, but the reconstruction of the Memorial Hall tower serves only to distort the concerns of Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...frivolous for the administration and the proponents of the restoration to claim that the $4 million is spare money. There are plenty of demands to be met; these demands must be vocalized and the administration must be willing to listen. An aesthetic enhancement, perhaps, but the reconstruction of the Memorial Hall tower serves only to distort the concerns of Harvard University. MASAFUMI J. HOSHINO...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Hall Tower Is Proof Of Misguided Priorities | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...headphone jack. People who use personal digital assistants such as the Philips Nino will be able to buy and play programming without purchasing the Audible player. And last week Audible began offering free samples of its content in the popular MP3 format at www.audible3.com Anyone--even Mac users!--can listen in after downloading a free MP3 player, like the ones at www.mp3.com Audible plans to offer serial books in this format. Still, you might want to buy the Audible mobile device for a cool feature that allows you to play it through your car radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audible Books | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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