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...very interested in the way the world works," a friend said. "He made a habit of pressuring professors in class, even as a first-year. He was rarely satisfied with a partial answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics Doctoral Student Commits Suicide | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

...jokingly call it the TOE--Theory of Everything. The idea is to describe all matter, all energy, all the fundamental forces of nature in one tidy, elegant set of equations. But it's so devilishly difficult that Einstein spent his last years in frustration trying to concoct just a partial solution to the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 25: THEY RANGE IN AGE FROM 31 TO 67 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...discussing issues. In 1988 flag burning didn't force its way into the presidential campaign because the burning of flags had become so widespread that public order, not to speak of air quality, was in peril. There were even fewer people involved in flag burning than there are in "partial birth" abortions, a 1996 wedge hypothetical. George Bush was merely looking for another way to call Michael Dukakis a "card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUT ON A WEDGE | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...about differences between College officials and the Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA), which ran June 3 and June 4, fail to emphasize the substantial efforts currently underway to reach agreement between the parties. We have offered two compromise proposals to resolve the issues. First, we would grant a partial exception to PBHA to have non-students on its governing board by creating special trustees who would participate fully in deliberations, offer advice on fundraising and fiscal accountability and strengthen institutional memory. We believe that their voice could be an important addition. Second, on staff, the College has offered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Solutions for Phillips Brooks House | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

That gave the Crimson (12-4) a fifth-place finish at Easterns and a partial salvaging of the weekend...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Water Polo Can't Quite Make it at Easterns | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

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