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...first day of work, Grove knew exactly none of this. He merely wanted to make a good impression. Nervous? You can't imagine. Here he was, trained as a fluid dynamicist and going to work in materials chemistry. (The math, everyone promised him, was pretty much the same.) Someone asked him to study the electrical characteristics of MOS. Grove delivered a sharp, comprehensive report. His bosses were impressed...
...None of the year's mass responses could hold a candle in scope and complexity to the astonishing grief inspired by Princess Diana's car-accident death, of course. (There were even spin-off mass responses of rage toward the paparazzi, who trailed her car into the Paris tunnel, and of generosity toward the charities the princess sponsored.) But other major displays of widespread feeling occurred in the sorrow at the death of Mother Teresa, the anger at both verdicts in the Boston "au pair trial" of Louise Woodward, and the celebration at the birth of the McCaughey septuplets...
Eleven days before the election, the President is accused of sexual dalliance with a visitor to the Oval Office--an underage visitor, at that. What's needed, the spin doctor (a coolly cynical Robert De Niro) decrees, is a splendid little war to divert the populace. None being handy, one will have to be invented out of rumor and falsified electronic imagery...
MARTINIS The heck with moderation. New study shows that even more than one is better than none...
...last category is none other than this column. Resolve to keep reading and enjoying it. If you have comments or suggestions for future topics, send e-mail to techtalk@the-crimson.harvard.edu...