Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take a look at the pictures on the fifth floor of Lamont. They show Lamont first opening to accommodate Harvard's homogeneous white male coat-and-tie student body. Then, by Dauber's logic, we should have expected Harvard to indeed "bow out gracefully" around the 1960s, as diversity began to prove itself increasingly important in education...
...annual computer hype-athon known as COMDEX. Teetering local phone systems that tumbled nightly at 7, double-booked hotel rooms and taxi lines that lasted longer than a Siegfried and Roy show seemed much less inconvenient when viewed as proof of the rightness of the computer revolution. Surely, the logic went, this many people can't be wrong. Even the sobering news that cash-starved CompuServe (which carries TIME online) was scrapping its failing Wow service didn't spoil the party. Instead, in lines, bathrooms and at craps tables, conventioneers--accountants, programmers, teachers--giddily hunted for the next big thing...
...Video clips of the cd-rom's main character, Lizzy, and her friends add a realistic touch to the adventure, while visits to haunts like the Full Moon Cafe--with its menu of scrambled brains and blood pudding--add to the eeriness. The game mixes parent-stumping logic puzzles with a rich landscape that kids will find endlessly intriguing. ($44.95; Dreamworks Interactive...
...storytelling, this change makes perfect sense. As logic, it's puzzling. What was held only hours before the election to be full of suspense becomes, in retrospect, inevitable. Campaign developments reported and analyzed breathlessly as they occurred--Clinton's physical stance in the second presidential debate, Dole's decision to concentrate on California during the past few weeks--are dismissed, not long afterward, as irrelevant. And the question never seems to arise: Why have you invested all those months chasing around the country after the candidates and chewing over every twist and turn in the saga...
...toward consolidation. Deregulation--in the U.S., Western Europe and increasingly in South America and Asia--is turning cozy, inefficient state-owned monopolies into telephone free-for-alls. The second trend is technology, which has dissolved borders and allowed telecommunications companies to branch into cable television and information services. "The logic is simple," says James Ross, a telecommunications analyst for the ABN AMRO Hoare Govett brokerage firm in London. "In the end, the industry is going to be dominated by a small number of large players, and this makes it more likely that BT/MCI will be one of them...