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Panelists for the discussion were Klein, Christina A. Spaulding '84, vice-president of RUS, and Sylvia Maxfield, a graduate student who filed a complaint with the University about Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez...
...Sylvia Meagher, a lifelong United Nations employee who wrote an exhaustive index of the Commission's exhibits, has said that the Commission's report "pronounces Oswald guilty," while the hearings and exhibits "create a reasonable doubt of Oswald's guilt and even a powerful presumption of his complete innocence." Her goal was not to sniff out and expose conspiracy theories, but rather to question whether the FBI and the Commission acted in good faith...
...research agenda for the '80s," said the conference's guiding spirit, Inabeth Miller, director of the Gutman Library at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, was to harness the dynamic stimulation of the games to foster learning without drudgery. Sylvia Weir, a research associate at M.I.T., showed a film of an educational video game in which the user experiences the principles of Newtonian physics. One scientist indicated that the games are already serving those hardest to educate. Stephen Leff, of the Harvard Medical School, reported preliminary findings that video games' "massive capacity for eliciting attention" helped...
...Virginia Slims Tennis. The women's tour is in town for its annual sashay through Boston, and the action comes to a head in the Garden this weekend. Tracy Austin, Billie Jean King, Wendy Turnbull and Sylvia Hanika have already advanced to the quarterfinals, and each is gunning for victory in Sunday afternoon's final. The 20-year-old Austin has won only one tournament in the last 14 months...
...phones on Wilson's desk. Frank Freidel, biographer of Franklin Roosevelt, reminded them that Benjamin Harrison said it was beneath the President's dignity to answer a telephone.* The relationship between Reagan and his wife Nancy was absolutely vital in understanding his presidency, said Morris' wife Sylvia, herself a biographer (Edith Kermit Roosevelt). Keep the private letters and notes, she advised. The Reagans' marriage seems unusually strong at a time when the national norm seems the opposite. Devotion shapes history...