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...even if large classes hurt Harvard, there are plenty of other factors, both tangible and intangible, which make it difficult to understand how the University could be ranked behind Yale and Princeton. The oldest, richest, most selective of the three, with the highest yield and student retention rate, Harvard has Cornel R. West '74, Crimson Cash and The Tasty...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Try Quantifying New Haven | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...oldest spousal joke in the book: if he's weird, he must be from your side of the family. But in the Unabomber case it was eerily prescient. It was in fact DAVID KACZYNSKI's wife LINDA PATRIK who first jokingly suggested that his brother Ted might be the Unabomber. In an interview the no longer media-shy Kaczynski family gave 60 Minutes' MIKE WALLACE and LESLEY STAHL, Patrik says the more she read about the Unabomber, the more she wanted David to look at his manifesto. "My motive was primarily to put Linda's mind at ease," says Kaczynski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 16, 1996 | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

Johan Helsingius, a Finn who lives near Helsinki, had run anon.penet.fi as a hobby since November 1993, mainly because he loves the idea of truly free speech. There are now a dozen of these so-called anonymous remailers around the world, but Helsingius' is the oldest, best known and largest, having served more than half a million people. Anon.penet.fi and its owner are also the most notorious; together they survived E-mail "bombings" that threatened to bury the computer under millions of pages of garbage, death threats and even a recent scurrilous report in the London Observer that linked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REQUIEM FOR A GO-BETWEEN | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

Rosenstraus is the longest and oldest resident in this hamlet of 50 people, an unincorporated settlement near the town of Hancock in western New York. She was born, raised and still lives in the same house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

Still, students seeking the perfect course this semester have plenty of options--despite U.S. News & World Report's recent dissing of America's oldest college...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: New Course Offerings Excite, but Beware Enrollment Limits | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

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