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...administrative conflict over scheduling Undergraduate Council elections led to heated words on the council's e-mail list last week, prompting some representatives to question whether Vice President John A. Burton '01 has the political capital to perform his job effectively...
There are motorcyclists who say other brands are cheaper and get better mileage--even that they perform better. But in the end, nothing measures up to a Harley, says Beasley, a spring 1999 Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics...
...details of what actually occurred at a Catamount "initiation party" last September are a little sketchy. The freshmen were reportedly made to eat seafood pie until they puked, forced to consume large quantities of alcohol and perform the old "elephant walk...
...moment just explode in the Millennium Dome? If so, someone neglected to inform the "living faces" that preside unchallenged over the loneliest island community in the world (in the same time zone, though hardly the same century, as New York City). On New Year's Eve, grass-skirted dancers perform under fireworks in front of the ancestral figures; but come New Year's Day, all is just eerie midsummer stillness again, the only sound the wind whistling in your ears. It may be that something tumultuous happened to your laptop, or that ATM down the road; but on an island...
...1930s Alan Turing first described the computer--a machine that could perform logical functions based on whatever instructions were fed to it--and then proceeded to help build one in the early 1940s that cracked the German wartime codes. His concepts were refined by other computer pioneers: John von Neumann, John Atanasoff, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly...