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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more helpless I feel. There hasn't been such a slew of tragedies holding the media's attention since the big disaster movie boom of the 1970s when sharks, infernos and ship wrecks covered the movie ad pages. Perhaps the fact that so many natural disasters occurred within one short time period is just some sort of bad coincidence. But the fact that so many of these disasters are considered worst-evers in their categories probably has a more real-world cause...
After all, "worst-ever" merely means "worst-recorded." We haven't been recording these things for that long, and the carelessness with which we ignore the distinction between the two no doubt reflects our own certainty that the world was created for us only a short time ago. If there is a God, that may be a dangerous position to take with...
...months short of election day--and twice that far from the innauguration of a new president--according to observers, some prominent K-School faculty have already started queueing up, while others have begun consulting their bus schedules...
...Professor of Music Harris S. Saunders'75 will replace English Lecturer and Senior TutorElizabeth N. Goodenough at Currier. Saunders was anon-resident tutor at North in the late 1970s. AtEliot, Donald Duncan takes over from StephenSzaraz '83. Duncan served as Eliot's senior tutorin the late 1960s for a short period and hasworked with Harvard's summer school since then...
...computer system may soon be outdated. "The basic technology is very good for the short term," says Priscilla Caplan, who heads the library office of systems development. "But nobody expects the next generation of library systems to look anything like...