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...overdue electricity bills hadn't been paid, so Moscow's regional power authority cut off the electricity -- to the central command of Russia's strategic nuclear missile forces. The headquarters, in a Moscow suburb, was forced to switch to a backup generator; its overdue bill totaled almost $1 million. An official statement said that "the military preparedness of the strategic missile forces was not impaired and is, as always, at the necessary level." But later in the week, nuclear submarine-building plants in the Arctic city of Severodvinsk were forced to shut down when the local power company...
...when, in 1985, then-Secretary of Education William Bennett attacked the core, saying, "The core is designed not to teach any select body of knowledge, but to introduce presumably eager undergraduates to different 'modes of inquiry'.... Thus after four years, hopefully you will be able to flip a mental switch and think like a historian or an economist or a scientist. And you'd better be able to because the core won't give you a coherent picture about Western history, scientific advances, or philosophical though." A Harvardian himself, Bennett was one of many skeptics...
...diversity of the applicant pool may not increase greatly, but few could argue that adopting the common application would decrease diversity. We, both as a school and as individuals, pride ourselves on our efficiency; the switch makes the college application process a much more efficient, less time-consuming project for prospective first-years. Why should we require them to jump through another hoop just for the sake of "Harvard...
...tradition. Henceforth, he said, ABC would ask producers to eliminate or drastically reduce the opening-credit sequences in their prime-time shows -- and with them theopening theme songs. The goal is to reduce program downtime, when viewers are most tempted to grab the remote control and switch the channel. Logical, perhaps, but rather coldhearted. Imagine Mary Tyler Moore without Mary to "turn the world on with her smile," Gilligan's Island without its bouncy "tale of a fateful trip," Hill Street Blues without Mike Post's opening theme or Twin Peaks without Angelo Badalamenti...
...schedule shift. It has moved Frasier, which became a Top 10 show in its comfortable time slot following Seinfeld last season, to Tuesday nights. There the show was set to challenge Roseanne, ABC's powerful but aging hit. But ABC made the game more interesting by pulling its own switch and moving Home Improvement, TV's No. 1 show, to face Frasier on Tuesday. It's the most widely anticipated matchup since The Simpsons took on The Cosby Show...