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...While things were becoming bizarre on Earth, a more familiar sight greeted us far above the planet: that of Mir's computer system crashing, for the third time. How did the crew react? By shrugging their shoulders and heading off to bed, of course. Ah, it's good to know some things never change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Weekend Review | 9/13/1997 | See Source »

...found yourself in a jam, and the Kroks are nowhere in sight. You've spent a night or two flipping through Courses of Instruction, undeterred by the cover of excessive color...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: ELEVEN ELECTIVES | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...seemed rested, renewed and optimistic after a month long working-vacation in Europe this summer. Though not out of mind, many of last year's controversies-like those over Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig, Harvard Institute for International Development and Harvard's Allston land purchase-seemed out of sight. * And Rudenstine should have more time to devote to his agenda, since the staff of senior administrators Rudenstine relies on to run a complex and far-flung University seems stable for the first time in his presidency. Gone are the year-long quests to fill vacant deanships and vice-presidential...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Rudenstine's Vision Unfolds | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...seemed rested, renewed and optimistic after a month long working-vacation in Europe this summer. Though not out of mind, many of last year's controversies-like those over Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig, Harvard Institute for International Development and Harvard's Allston land purchase-seemed out of sight. * And Rudenstine should have more time to devote to his agenda, since the staff of senior administrators Rudenstine relies on to run a complex and far-flung University seems stable for the first time in his presidency. Gone are the year-long quests to fill vacant deanships and vice-presidential...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Rudenstine's Vision Unfolds | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...East Orange, N.J., is home to a woman who shook hands with the Queen of England at Centre Court in Wimbledon, a woman who was a queen herself, the reigning tennis champion twice in a row at Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open. But Althea Gibson has vanished from sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Althea Gibson: THE WOMAN WHO WAS SOMEBODY | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

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