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With the start of the school year, we find ourselves amid a swarm of students in the depths of the Science Center or Sever Hall. No longer are we distinct individuals. Instead, suddenly we are all one mass of faceless creatures in whose direction professors direct their words. From the direction of the podium or even among the very mass, we blend. In short, we are anonymous...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: The Faceless Masses | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...bury the computer under millions of pages of garbage, death threats and even a recent scurrilous report in the London Observer that linked the service to child-porn traffickers--an accusation that Finnish authorities said was groundless. But in the end, it was the lawyers who caused Helsingius to sever anon.penet.fi from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REQUIEM FOR A GO-BETWEEN | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...Dole considered several drastic options, a senior Red Cross official says, including a proposal to sever the Red Cross's historic link to the nation's blood supply by setting up the blood unit as an independent operation. Instead, Mrs. Dole announced a sweeping campaign to modernize and centralize blood operations and improve the training of blood staff, a revolutionary effort that threatened to bankrupt the blood operation--the equivalent of a $1 billion company--and alienate its outlying blood banks, accustomed to a high level of autonomy. At a time of great worry about the blood supply, the bold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIRST BLOOD: HOW THE RED CROSS WOUNDED A RESUME | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...even interventions within these rooms, only that their overall character and proportions be preserved. Candidates for this list might include Memorial Hall, the main reading room in Widener, the dining halls of Dunster and Eliot Houses, the common room of Straus Hall and the main staircase and lobby of Sever. I recommend the formation of a panel to compile this list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let the Destruction of the Great Hall Not Be in Vain | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when you say I don't care about children, how dare you!" She called the activist a nobody, but ordered Wal-Mart to sever ties with the factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 13, 1996 | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

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