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Thanks to the Lowell House Committee, Lowell residents will soon be rid of such dilemmas. According to Michael P. Abate '00, Lowell House Committee co-chair, the committee announced Tuesday at Lowell's "Harvest Fair" dinner that, beginning Nov, 16, dining hall hours will be extended to help those with the late-night munchies...
...with U.N. arms inspectors, but stopped short of threatening the use of force if Baghdad refuses. The U.S. is in no rush to respond to Saddam Hussein's latest defiance. "Unilateral military action by the U.S. will be opposed in the region, because Washington lacks a plan to get rid of Saddam and there's a great deal of Arab sympathy for the suffering of ordinary Iraqis," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "The perception of an American double standard when the country defying the international community is Israel rather than Iraq adds to Arab opposition." But failure...
First, why would anyone want to get rid of his old reliable videotape player? For the same reasons that music lovers upgraded from record players to audio CDs: superior quality, compact storage and the ability to hop quickly to a precise spot in the programming. I've been trying out a Panasonic DVD A310 ($599), and am surprised that the picture really does look twice as good as those blurry images my half-as-expensive, suddenly depressing VCR has been grinding out. That's because VHS recorders typically display movies at about 240 lines of resolution; digital video paints...
...Mohamad because he dared to do things contrary to popular belief, making Malaysia a force to be reckoned with [BUSINESS, Oct. 12]. But like a cat cornered in a cage, Mahathir has turned into a belligerent and cruel dictator. He seriously misread the Malaysian public in trying to get rid of his deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, by unjust means. Many of us had backed Mahathir because Anwar supported him, and we waited patiently with Anwar for a peaceful transition of power between the two men. But now such a thing is no longer to be. Violence...
...first-years, they say, it might be betterto get rid of the job. Dorm Crew supervisor RobertWolfreys says first-years that work often findthemselves in over their heads come midtermseason...