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According to Merrill-Oldham, "the bags are evidence of something much more systemic going on. The libraries have been writing disaster plans for a long time....When a problem occurs, if you don't have a well ordered reaction plan, you run the risk of losing a much larger percentage of materials...
There is a simple way to get around being stalked, if you feel that is indeed a problem. Use a POP client such as Eudora Pro or Outlook that collects your e-mail and brings it directly to your machine. That way, you can still read your e-mail without logging in and giving fuel to stalkers. But please don't set a precedent of disabling useful commands systemwide and placing undue burden on legitimate users. DEBORAH J. ABEL...
When we add up all the subplots--Gore's 98 ovations, close-ups on everyone, the bland GOP response and Clinton's contradictions--a disturbing theme seeps through the evening's grandiose rhetoric. It seems that the avoidance of our problems has become the problem itself, and we can look forward to nothing better than more of the political pandering, simple mantras and stop-gap solutions that we have come to despise. Alex M. Carter '00 is a history and literature concentrator in Dunster House. His column will resume next semester...
...exercise version of the Year 2000 problem-except, in this case, it's the people, not the computers, who won't work. Officials are making plans instead for the year...
...Milosevic had earlier ordered the chief U.S. monitor, William Walker, out of the country after Walker blamed the Serbs for a massacre of 45 Albanians. Despite threatening air strikes, NATO is reluctant to act because the fundamental political problem -- the Albanians' demand for independence and the Serbs' refusal to grant even the limited autonomy favored by the West -- remains unresolved. "The KLA rebels are spoiling for a new fight, and Milosevic wants to scrap the cease-fire he agreed to last year," says Calabresi. "Everybody's now seen that the West is loath to intervene, so all the pieces...