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...churns down the school corridors to music that sounds like the theme for The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West; students scatter rather than get caught in the laser beam of her cool rage. In history class she makes one think of Harry Potter's Professor Snape, so regal is her malevolence, so acute her gift for the demeaning remark that cuts through the skin of her best students and into their fragile egos. Her intellect has veered into artful cruelty. Her ambition has been curdled by this life sentence in a town she was dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Crash Course In Humiliation | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Annenberg Hall opens to first-year diners. Students appreciate the dining environment, but express confusion at the "scatter system...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: Seniors: your this is Harvard | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...change was not merely one of location. With Annenberg came an entirely new style of food distribution: "The Scatter System." Remember that joke...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: What Was It All About? | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...days of the Union, there were lines--orderly, simple lines from one meal item to the next. In the Scatter System, though, lines were considered too simple for the advanced mind of the Harvard student. Chaos theory was invoked as the orderly lines were discarded in favor of an every-nerd-for-nerdself replacement...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: What Was It All About? | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

Instead the majority of the game was a pitcher's duel. Thoke and B.C.'s Gretchen Thompson combined to scatter 11 hits and give up only three earned runs. The Eagles, however, struck first and struck early...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Scores Pair of Extra-Inning Wins | 4/9/1999 | See Source »

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