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...players, on the other hand, have a brilliant reputation to live up to. They have been going like wild-fire, beating Yale and the crack team of the University of Arizona, visiting in this section as the polo champions of the Southwest. They may shock some of the more staid members of the polo-playing community...
...often that the staid curriculum of Social Analysis 10 (Ec 10) permits change. Last year, when Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59 petitioned for an alternative course, his own department initially denied him. But the Economics department did allow for one change in Ec 10’s lecture line-up last year, and the added material was arguably as subversive as Marglin’s new core...
Despite a staid reputation, the top railroads have dramatically upgraded their technology. BNSF has been quietly investing nearly $275 million annually in new IT to stay competitive. Chief information officer Jeff Campbell says BNSF's network center astonishes visitors with its ballroom size and sophisticated monitors. "While freight cars and locomotives haven't changed in two decades," he says, "most people have not seen an ops center like ours, not even at NASA in Houston." Automated readers, located every 30 miles along the 33,000-mile system, scan the bar codes of passing cars and locomotives--basically the rail version...
After 130 years of staid blacks and musty grays, The Harvard Crimson features actual crimson—and the full spectrum of colors—on its front page today, marking a new era for the University’s daily newspaper...
They called her the Asian Madonna because, in the ultra-staid world of Hong Kong pop music, her boldness was not just a sensation but an affront. If Madonna was the Material Girl, Anita Mui Yim-fong was the Bad Girl. That was the title of her 1985 hit song (which was briefly banned from radio for its raunchy lyrics) and best-selling album. In concert, Mui was a strutting, scowling presence, exuding sexuality like a visual and aural musk. She didn't simply command the stage; she commandeered it. She set attendance records with concert series...