Word: mits
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What keeps the sailors from attaining the high-level consistency of Yale or MIT, both agree, is partly the white-tie-and-tails image of the sport. "People may think it's a very elite, high-powered thing, but it's really a very open thing," Horn contends. Gone are the days when the Ted Turners of the world would hop into their boats, still tuxedo-clad, after an evening of nightclub-hopping; sailing is now a down-to-earth, serious sport. Unfortunately hot everyone realizes that, and the fall crop of freshmen can't compare to the turnout...
...could expect one or two or three major nuclear accidents between now and the end of the century," Henry W. Kendall, an MIT professor of Physics who headed the UCS project, said yesterday...
WHEN THE DELUGE of stories revealing the involvement of various American universities in the Central Intelligence Agency's controversial MK-ULTRA mind control program of the 1950s first began to pour onto the pages of the nation's papers, administrators from institutions like Stanford and MIT felt obligated to promptly release a full accounting of their universities' participation in the projects. Harvard apparently feels otherwise. Nearly two months have lapsed since Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, pledged a comprehensive report for public scrutiny on the extent of Harvard's involvement in the MK-ULTRA program. But aside...
...there is another part of the population of Cambridge that few visitors see or acknowledge. That part is the longterm residents, many of whom make their livings from Harvard and MIT, but nonetheless do not take part in scholarly pursuits offered by the universities...
Harvard officials justify their role in the Cambridge community by pointing to Harvard and MIT, the city's largest employers. It is estimated that the two universities spend more than $80 million each year and rank as the third and fourth largest tax payers. Harvard pays $1,533,000 in property taxes and $507,000 in lieu of taxes. The figures may rank Harvard as one of the top ten tax payers, but it is not enough for those who see nothing but Harvard buildings sprawled over the some 20 acres it owns in Cambridge...