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...first public hint that Harvard and Radcliffe were in merger talks came in April 1998, when The Boston Globe reported that Radcliffe's "death" was nigh. Although Wilson and Chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees Nancy-Beth G. Sheerr '71 had little comment, the revelation led to a flurry of media attention and a student rally to "save" Radcliffe...
...kids, the end of quality time is nigh. The bigwigs at Nasdaq have set in motion a plan to conduct an evening trading session, allowing brokers and online investors alike to buy and sell the index's 100 largest stocks from 5:30 until as late as 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. E.T. "This is very much a product of the stock-crazed world that we're living in right now," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "A bear market in the next month or two, and this plan will quietly go away -- temporarily. In the end, though...
Environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. '77 told a standing-room-only crowd at the ARCO Forum last nigh that not only is protecting the environment from polluters possible, but it is a fundamental duty of Americans...
...skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...
...skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...