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...None of these things happen in a vacuum," he said. "Don't pretend divestment will have no effect whatsoever on Harvard's endowment...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Urges University to Cut Ties to Irresponsible Businesses | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...Jesse," a firs year who has also considered suicide, writes, "In a place where I feel that people try to pretend that they're on top of the world, it's awful hard to tell even a close friend, Look, a lot of the time, I'm unhappy.' Several people in my entryway had dealt with depression this year also, and none of us ever talked about it or tried to help each other...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Ordinary People | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...quintessential child of the computer age. His parents met while working on the Ferranti Mark I, the first computer sold commercially. They taught him to think unconventionally; he'd play games over the breakfast table with imaginary numbers (what's the square root of minus 4?). He made pretend computers out of cardboard boxes and five-hole paper tape and fell in love with electronics. Later, at Oxford, he built his own working electronic computer out of spare parts and a TV set. He also studied physics, which he thought would be a lovely compromise between math and electronics. "Physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...minister, it's holy week--the most important week of the year. I have services on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Easter Sunday. I have no more of a spring break than Monday and half of Tuesday. I am going to pretend it isn't holiday and then I won't feel deprived...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: PROF BREAK PLANS | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

Beth's husband Pat (Treat Williams) and remaining son Vincent (Cory Buck at seven, Jonathan Jackson at 16) dare to pretend that life goes on. But Beth makes a career of her guilt and grief; she builds a mausoleum for her lost child and moves into it. She sleeps all day and leaves the tending of her infant daughter to the two males in the house. In a nice vignette, young Vincent comes home, sees that his sister is being ignored, picks up her rattles and puts them in the playpen, then walks through the foyer, knocking over a vase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ransom of the Heart | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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