Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sun shone on Harvard again for this year's Commencement exercises as 27,000 people crammed into Harvard Yard, sitting in chairs under the trees of Tercentenary Theater, basking in the light beating down on Widener's steps or lounging in the shade cast by one of the buildings...
...agenda setters belong the spoils. His peers were skeptical when Jim Clark decided to colonize the Web. Well, today Netscape's value has jumped to $5 billion, Clark's own net worth stands at $1.3 billion, and he escapes often to enjoy the last laugh while sailing to sun-drenched paradises like Tahiti. He has earned the lush life twice over, even though others share the high-tech glory. After all, Columbus may have discovered the New World, but it was Isabella and Ferdinand who persuaded the royal court to put up the money...
...last week--when the Rising Sun Missionary Baptist church in Greensboro, Alabama, and a former sanctuary at Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, were torched--30 black churches in an eight-state arc from Louisiana to Virginia had been burned over the past 18 months. Only a handful of these arson cases have been solved. Such senseless destruction strikes at the soul of congregations. But their anguish deepens when they, the victims, also become suspects...
...Sun Microsystems is the latest entrant in the freeware sweepstakes. The hot product is Java, the programming language that promises a more interactive Web. At last week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun's JavaSoft unit unveiled JavaOS, an operating system the company swears will make money--eventually. The plan is to refine Java and give it away to everyone but Microsoft, Apple and a few other companies that will license the OS for a hefty...
...sheltered from the realities of city life. Nonetheless, the administration and the police department must try harder. From most locations on campus, blue light emergency phones cannot be seen. We have repeatedly called for better lighting on campus. The intense bulbs that light up the Yard like the noonday sun during Commencement Week quickly disappear when the wealthy alumni and expensive chairs depart. House security guards are on duty from 5 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.--hardly the most dangerous times of night. In addition, guards sitting in isolated superintendents' offices--or even worse, at Tommy's House of Pizza...