Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earlier this month, Harvard announced to a crowd of administrators and what it euphemistically calls "friends" that the University had, once again, filled its coffers higher than any other university in history. The $2.325 billion Harvard raised in its capital campaign, mostly from alums, served to underscore the economic power of its tradition...
...Knafel center will allow international study faculty to remain within their centers and still not be remote from their department," explains Mary H. Power, Harvard's director of community relations for Cambridge. "Faculty presence is crucial to the vitality of the centers...
...Grow Up and Wasteland feature gay leads with actual, if tentative, love lives (Ford, a lawyer who's just left his marriage, and Russell, a closeted soap actor). Action has two gay regulars; one is Bobby G., a ruthless studio head whose massive male endowment symbolizes his show-biz power and the hetero fear of gay sexuality (literally striking dumb straight men who witness...
...University economist named Thorstein Veblen predicted that one day, engineers would be the true masters of the financial universe. It's technology that drives the economy, he argued, and since engineers create the stuff, it'll only be a matter of time before they come to their senses, seize power and undercut the venture capitalists and corporate bigwigs who make so much dough from other people's brilliant ideas. Veblen was right, it turns out. And though they never met, the man who would lead the revolution was a more recent Stanford professor, peripatetic Jim Clark...
...hurt, no traffic accidents, nobody locked up that I have to go interview, then that's a good morning. We're having a good morning." His loaded Smith & Wesson, his badge and his beeper are all hidden under his brown sports jacket, but he carries the school's ubiquitous power symbol, a walkie-talkie, and it will crackle and sputter plenty before the day is safely started...