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Less than a month ago, the staff suggested that Harvard's primary business ought to be education. We stand by that position and believe that Harvard is wise to stay out of the entirely different field of organizing a security force. A few isolated anecdotes about confusion during the SSI guards' first weeks on the job are not enough to discredit the outsourcing process...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: SSI Guards A Mixed Bag | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...remember I took a photograph of him with one of my freshman year roommates," Zwick said. "I remember thinking that's what a Harvard professor ought to be--the bowtie and the really effusive personality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devoted Teacher, Marius Dies of Cancer at 66 | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...fact, I ought to save a lot of people embarrassment right now by stating the following: there is no "Good Times" virus. Microsoft and AOL are not "teaming up" to conduct any kind of survey. The Postal Service is not about to charge 5[cents] for every e-mail. Deodorants do not cause breast cancer. M&M's will not give you free candy, nor will the Gap send you a free pair of jeans, nor will Honda drive a brand-new Civic to your front door if you pass on "their" messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Be E-Hoaxed | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...this sentence. These laboratory feats make talk of sugar cube-size computers less speculative than it was a few years ago. Says Lifset: "A lot of the consumer goods and industrial equipment could become dramatically smaller when nanotechnology comes online. That, plus more efficient recovery of the discarded goods, ought to translate into huge reductions in waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Make Garbage Disappear? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...misshapen circle. Budnitz struggles to weave multiple narratives into a unifying whole, but the sense of centripetal completion fails as each new voice grows more allied with the increasingly amorphous world inside Budnitz's novel. Still, Budnitz has more than answered the requirements of techniques that a good novelist ought to engage. Thus, one can only hope that If I Told You Once, will have a twice, for Budnitz has the skills of a tremendous writer, and round two could be a knockout...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: If I Told You Once, It Would Be Enough | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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