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...either rent the pocket pagers ($16-$35 a month depending on the model) or buy them outright ($175-$400). Some models come equipped with earphones, flashing lights or vibrators for use in high-noise areas. Doctors and lawyers often choose Motorola's Pageboy II with its computer-like Mem-O-Lert, which silences the call but records it for retrieval later on. The most elaborate pagers produce voice messages...
GALLOWS HUMOR is a delicate thing. Any one who has loitered outside Mem Hall waiting for an exam to begin knows that feeling of disgust when the inevitable clown makes the usual jokes while you frantically try to remember just what in hell the War of Jenkins' Ear was. It's not the idea of comic relief that bothers you, it's those awful jokes. Black humor, more than any other type of humor, has to be very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify...
...addition to making the roof and gutters "watertight," workers are restoring the "finials," or lower towers, John B. Hawes, the planning officer supervising the Mem Hall project, said the other...
Hawes has bigger ideas for Mem Hall, built in the 1890s to commemorate Harvard students and alumni killed in the Civil War. Although he said the task force's recommendation to transform the building into a coffee house or an old style beer hall has merit, he would prefer to see the building converted into a campus center for the arts...
...course, logistics usually rule out matters like these. And few buildings within the University are as convenient as Mem for taking exams and registering for courses...