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...taught a computer science course last year where all the assignments were done with pencil and paper," says McKay Professor of Computer Science Michael O. Rabin, adding that he does not expect the amount of computer assignments to increase as a result of the advanced technology, instead the work will only be made easier for the students, he says...
...count, Tuchman damns Popes from both ends of her pencil. She takes Alexander VI to task for granting an undeserved annulment to the French King, Louis XII, and thereby scandalizing the faithful. A few pages later she faults Clement VII for bowing to Habsburg political pressure and denying an annulment to Henry VIII of England...
...wrist is a gold watch, on the other a gold chain bracelet with colored stones. He wears a gold-and-diamond ring on the fourth finger of his left hand. His hair falls over his ears, the thin corkscrew curls shiny. His eyes are green, his mustache a pencil line over his lip. His nose looks as if it might have been broken once. There is a black mole the size of a nickel on his right cheek...
DIED. William Powell, 91, suave actor whose resonant voice and easygoing elegance made him the movies' pre-eminent American gentleman; in Palm Springs, Calif. His silky good looks and pencil-thin mustache first got him typed as a villain in silent films, but when sound arrived, Powell became an expert at sophisticated comedy, appearing in such films as My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld (both 1936) and most unforgettably the six Thin Man movies (1934-47), in which he and Co-Star Myrna Loy were Nick and Nora Charles, the models for dozens of witty Hollywood sleuths to follow...
...Address Book), who came from Boston to speak at lunch, said, "People think if they can touch and talk to an author, they will absorb the magic, be able to do it themselves. That's why they always ask technical questions like 'Do you use a pencil...