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Princeton and Yale loom as the giants in this year's league, but Harvard has played the role of giant-killer more than once in the past...
...national media attention all arise from tension between administrative profit-oriented stock decisions and student demands for strong action against firms helping support apartheid. Often the debate focuses on the possible benefits of U.S. corporations remaining in South Africa and pursuing progressive racial policies under apartheid. Other questions that loom large in the student-administration "dialogue" concern the role of U.S. banks in financing apartheid and the policies the U.S. government could pursue to help correct the South African government's outrageous abuses, if not to abolish apartheid altogether...
Shutdowns and blackouts loom as the coal strike rumbles...
...positions of threads, the holes in his cards would represent the mathematical commands to the machine. Wrote Babbage's mathematically knowledgeable friend Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves...
Babbage's loom, alas, never wove anything. By the time the eccentric genius died in 1871, he had managed to put together just a few small parts; only his elaborate drawings provide a clue to his visionary machine. Indeed, when Harvard and IBM scientists rediscovered Babbage's work in the 1940s while they were building a pioneering electromechanical digital computer called Mark I, they were astonished by his foresight. Said the team leader, Howard Aiken: "If Babbage had lived 75 years later, I would have been...