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...chair of the Faculty's Information Technology Committee, Lewis oversaw a Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) department that was plagued by a lack of personnel--including a permanent director--and severe space and money short-ages...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Lewis' Trying Term | 1/31/1996 | See Source »

...preparing for them. Koyanis asserts that the Harvard Press declined my request because my next amounts merely to "another variant of the typography. The question is," she declares, "How many competing versions do you want?" The typography? Dickinson handwrote her poetry--resisted the printing of verse as editors oversaw it in her day. The growing consensus among scholars in our day is that not only does not authoritative typographic text of Dickinson poems exist, but that no definitive typographic edition is possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Press Unfair to Opus | 1/24/1996 | See Source »

...three years, the tactic was used repeatedly, causing the deaths of 77 victims and the wounding of more than 300 others. Israeli authorities believe Ayyash personally built the bombs that killed 35 of them and trained another bombmaker whose work claimed 10 more victims. Israeli officials say the Engineer oversaw many logistics of the attacks--for example, deciding their time and location...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: DEATH COMES CALLING | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

According to Mike Harris, the public information consultant for the Joint Policy Board of Mathematics, the organization which oversaw the process, the award was started in response to an incredibly small amount of undergraduate research done by comparison to graduate-level research...

Author: By Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, | Title: Math Wiz Takes Honorable Mention in Contest | 12/12/1995 | See Source »

DIED. EDDIE EGAN, 65, police officer/actor; of cancer; in Miami. As a New York City detective in 1962, Egan oversaw the famed "French Connection" heroin bust, which inspired the 1971 movie. In it Egan, portraying his boss, was cast opposite Gene Hackman, who won an Oscar for playing Egan. The real cop went on to play a platoon's worth of the Hollywood sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 20, 1995 | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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