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...deadline to select a new University president was fast approaching...

Author: By Warren Adler and Catherine E. Shoichet, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Now & Then: The Selection of Rudenstine's Successor Bears Many Similarities to the Pusey Search | 12/5/2000 | See Source »

This isn't the presidential search of today in which a select committee will pick Neil L. Rudenstine's successor. It is instead the search of 1953--James B. Conant '13 was preparing to step down and Nathan M. Pusey was standing in the wings...

Author: By Warren Adler and Catherine E. Shoichet, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Now & Then: The Selection of Rudenstine's Successor Bears Many Similarities to the Pusey Search | 12/5/2000 | See Source »

...take the occasionally rough with the generally smooth, partly because of the interactive nature of invention described above, and partly because for centuries we have lived in a directionless culture of scarcity. At no time was there either need or resources available to share the intellectual wealth beyond a select few. There was no point, for instance, in teaching literacy to the masses without an adequate number of printing presses to provide them with texts. In any case, prior to the Age of Exploration and the Industrial Revolution, there would have been little a literate majority could have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventors & Inventions | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Someday consumers may be able to custom-select the features they want in their personal wireless device. Whether or not the i700 becomes a popular favorite like cell phones and handheld PCs, its release makes clear for the first time that the ability to send and receive images is an integral part of that future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take A Picture That Can Fly | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Monday, the Select Joint Committee on the Manner of the Appointment of Presidential Electors, which met last week, issued its report on the issue, decisively recommending the special session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fla. Republicans Ready to Rumble | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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