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Time is running out in Harvard's quest for $2.1 billion. Fortunately, the six-year University-wide capital campaign has been largely successful, inching 7 percent closer to its goal in the past year...
Armstrong has a long list of offices she has held at Harvard, most prominently, her position as the president of the Board of Overseers for 1998 to 1999. Her law expertise was invaluable to the Board, to which fellow graduates elected her in 1993 to serve a six-year stint...
...good as her tantalizing opening words, Margaret goes on to recount an extremely hectic four or so weeks in her life. For openers, her six-year marriage to Adrian, 20 years her senior and the chaplain at a nearby experimental school for troubled youths, seems to be foundering. He is depressed, overburdened with work--filling in for the headmaster-founder who has recently died--and physically inattentive. Then there is Tony, an old man in a monk's habit who appears at the rectory requesting lodging. Next comes Chase, a teenager at Adrian's school who was expelled...
...entirely forgotten. In the late 1960s, Sperry Rand, which held the rights to Eckert and Mauchly's original UNIVAC patents, sued Honeywell (which, like IBM, had got into the computer business) for royalty payments. At one point in the six-year litigation, Atanasoff testified that Mauchly cribbed ABC's key features during a five-day visit in 1941. Mauchly indignantly denied the accusation. But the judge took a different view. In a 1973 decision that was never appealed, he invalidated Eckert and Mauchly's patents and in effect declared Atanasoff the winner. Historians, however, interpret the ruling more broadly, viewing...
...third tutor to admit to substituting her own work for Gophers' scholarship, adding some fatty drops of bacon grease to the raging inferno that is now Minnesota Papergate. The first tutor to come forward, Jan Gangelhoff, claimed to have done 400 assignments for Minnesota basketball players in a six-year span from...