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HASCS ordered a two-processor upgrade and more memory from Sun, the manufacturers of the fas machine, a Sun Spare 1000 with four processors...
...other cities that have flirted with such reforms, are the teachers' unions. They view recruiting E.A.I. as a veiled attempt at union bashing, since the company was granted a role in negotiating future contracts and in hiring and firing teachers. "We don't have a dollar to spare now," argues Hartford Federation of Teachers head Susan Davis, "and to see a private company come in and take out money that could be put back into the school system worries me." School board president William Meagher was skeptical about the company's promises: "I don't think they've done what...
...science, but what Lopez offers instead are a dozen fictional sketches from his staked-out territory at the edge of the natural world. The stories are slight, and the term note suggests sketchbook impressions, perhaps, for canvases that might someday be painted. Thus slyly discounted by their author, these spare narrations carry surprising weight. One story, Teal Creek, is nothing more than a teenager's recollection of coming instinctively to respect a rural hermit's solitude. Although Lopez is known for wavering dangerously close to poetic prose, here he leaves all the right things unsaid, and the silence resonates...
...Piper Jaffray fund. Her goal had been to park the money for several years until she got her degree from the University of Washington and settled into a house with her three-year-old daughter. "I could have bought a house, paid cash and had money to spare to pay the taxes," said Lingenfelter, who is suing Piper to recover at least some of her losses...
EugensKoh '96-'97 writes about technology issues for The Crimson. He is Remote Staff Manager, Media Services, at America Online, Inc. In his spare time, he composes soundtracks for CD-ROMs and hosts "New Releases," a weekly radio program an WHRB...