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...deliver, along with the usual phone numbers, written messages such as "Running late" or "Where's my heroin?" Almost all today's alphas, unbeknown to their owners, can also receive E-mail. That means Mom can beckon you home by sending a message over CompuServe or your husband can slip an electronic grocery list across the Internet and onto your hip. (If you have a pager, one phone call to your service provider should be enough to turn on the mail...
However, three of those defeats came at the hands of top-ten teams (Loyola, No. 5 Princeton and No. 8 Yale). Moreover, only the 15-4 loss to Princeton was really a blowout, as Harvard stayed close to Yale and Loyola in the first half before letting those games slip away...
...moment we received the name of our home for the next three years on a slip of paper at 8 a.m., we all screamed. It was not a scream of joy. We were in Grays; you could have heard us in the Science Center. That day, I walked around campus avoiding the glances of friends, not wanting to hear the inevitable "Eliot" and "Lowell" and the accompanying smiles. But I couldn't evade them all, and so I unswervingly received so-called "humorous" responses of "Oh, I'm sorry" and "See you in three years" from supposedly well-meaning peers...
...received one of their four choices--complain about the administration "taking away free choice" and "not treating us like adults." Those of us who were randomized under the old system never got any choice to begin with. We were all given the facade of choice, but when the slip came in, all semblance of determining our own fate-went out the window...
...this bad anywhere else." Dilbert began to chronicle downsizing, hotelling (when a company has fewer cubicles than employees, and every morning is a game of musical chairs) and similar horrors. One strip introduced the Can-o-Matic, "a rest-room stall that randomly fires people by slapping a pink slip on their backs and catapulting them out of the building." In another, Dilbert's boss uses humor as a management tool. "Knock, knock," he says. "Who's there?" asks a worker. "Not you anymore...