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...simply cannot disengage from the outside world selectively; this is an all-too-easy-to-believe ivory tower delusion. Just as the food in the dining hall is not really free, and "dining services flexibility" means that more employees go home later, our position as college students does not render us innocuous or ineffectual in the non-college world. Apathy cannot be justified on the basis of academic demands or career aspirations...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Stuck in the Tower | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

...advantage Ellison stressed was that the NC will render conventional operating systems irrelevant. Given the current Microsoft monopoly, Ellison said he thinks this development will be positive for consumers...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oracle Corporation CEO Speaks to Students | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...introduced to society so that everyone knows she is now wife material. It generally happens during a woman's first year of college. However, most social beings have spent many a night doing the Harvard social scene. Does a woman's ability to romp around late at night render this custom less necessary? Perhaps. Even so, there is no shortage of Harvard debutantes. Unfortunately, as debutante balls have been the victims of quite extensive criticism, last names are omitted to protect those sources who have attended deb balls as either debs themselves, friends or escorts (the guys conned into being...

Author: By Emily N. Tabak, | Title: COME OUT, COME OUT! | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...There is no doubt that some scholars, although not necessarily at Harvard, believe that rational choice has proven to be a master key that can unify the discourse and render it more scientific," Hall says. "Despite my own interest in rational choice analysis I'm skeptical of that view. It has yet to be proven, and that's why I attach great value to scholarly pluralism, to debate among a wide range of views...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AREA STUDIES vs. RATIONAL CHOICE | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

Well, the Web itself is awfully big, but XML may render such breathless sentences prescient. Here's the pitch: Websites are built using markup languages--sets of rules for displaying information on a Web page. Today's standard language, HTML (hypertext markup language), was chosen at the dawn of the Web for its simplicity and the ease with which it combined pictures with plain text. This very simplicity, though, makes the Web in its current form a very tough place to do business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEEPING TABS ONLINE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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