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...assuming that computers always maximize efficiency and utility. Those of us who use computers periodically (i.e. 99 percent of us here at Harvard) know that this is not the case. Computers will break, entice you into wasting time exploring the Internet or playing solitaire, and will sometimes be just plain slower than doing things by hand...

Author: By Eugene Kim, | Title: tech TALK | 10/4/1995 | See Source »

...message and my comedy is plain and simple. It's about peace and love," he said. "There's a lot of love on this corner today. Most of it is love for the sound of my own voice...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Lampoon Honors SNL's Hartman | 10/3/1995 | See Source »

...turns out that a scientist can see the future by watching four-year-olds interact with a marshmallow. The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torment. You can have this marshmallow right now, he says. But if you wait while I run an errand, you can have two marshmallows when I get back. And then he leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: THE EQ FACTOR | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...guide us in creating a multiracial society." But judging by the initial 100,000 press run, the largest by far in the company's history, the Free Press also sees D'Souza as a moneymaker and is willing to profiteer on the obscene ideas he has packaged in the plain brown wrapper of specious scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIGOT'S HANDBOOK | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...solve it. But such a dialogue stands little chance of being productive if it is polluted by the nonsense D'Souza is peddling. Those who want to deal honestly with race can begin by boycotting his book--not because it's politically incorrect, but because it is just plain wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIGOT'S HANDBOOK | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

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