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Construction workers are busy polishing the "jewel" that is the Maxwell Dworkin building, the University's $26 million effort to unify under one roof the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) and the computer sciences at Harvard...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hardwired: Workers Put Finishing Touches on New Computer Science Building | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...that already includes LaToya Jackson among its spokespeople, that's hardly grounds for disqualification. And so last month a Florida company approached Jones to lend her name to a psychic hot line, an offer she accepted without first consulting her husband, her attorney or even LaToya. "I hit the roof when I found out," says Susan Carpenter-McMillan, Jones' longtime adviser. "It's the most demeaning thing, and it flies in the face of everything [Paula and I] believe in religiously." When Jones later expressed misgivings about the enterprise, she was informed that the contract is legally binding. So while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 17, 1999 | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...table and a writing desk, the former shorter than the latter so that typing didn t involve the praying mantis posture that Harvard desks necessitate. The Sisyphean struggle of the scrivener Nipper in Herman Melville s "Bartleby the Scrivener"-first tilting his writing table to angle of the "steep roof of a Dutch house" to ease his back, then lowering the table "to his waistbands" and stooping over when it stopped the circulation in his arms, then again tilting the table up-show that the issue of ergonomics in the workplace predates even the typewriter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...order to bring you the latest in captivating news, many correspondents have set up shop on the roof of Serbian military headquarters, a 200-story X-shaped building made of neon glow-in-the-dark playing cards...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Why I Hate TV News | 5/4/1999 | See Source »

...separate project yesterday, workers used cranes in efforts to remove paint from a lower part of the Memorial Church roof...

Author: By Timothy L. Warren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Workers Restore Bell to Memorial Church Following Loss of Clapper | 5/4/1999 | See Source »

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