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...political parties. In a rare demonstration of unity, opposition leaders banded together in the so-called Group of 12 to press for Avril's ouster and select the new President. But that unity is expected to crumble as soon as campaigning begins. Until the election, Trouillot must govern in tandem with a 19-member Council of State, composed of representatives from social groups and geographic regions. The panel has veto power over presidential decisions -- and that alone could stymie progress toward elections...
Tournant, the freshman at second singles, has wowed critics this fall with a 14-3 performance and a Mary Garber Invitational singles championship. Dragomirescu and Harvard second-seed Amy deLone must shut down the tandem in singles to set the tempo for the match...
Drury fed Donato an assist in the second period last night with Harvard trailing, 3-1, fueling a Crimson come-back just as the game appeared to he slipping away. In every game which Donato has played this season, he has appeared on Drury's line and the tandem seems to be effective--the junior has tallied three goals and three assists in five games...
There are ways to make the technology more reliable. Fault-tolerant computers like those built by Stratus, Tandem and, for that matter, AT&T reduce runaway system errors by a kind of "paranoid democracy," where modules working in parallel constantly evaluate whether their electronic co- workers are "sane" or "crazy." Unfortunately, as last week's breakdown showed, it is possible for all the modules to go crazy at once. Software, always the skittish part of any system, can also be made more dependable by imposing the kind of discipline on programmers that engineering standards impose on, say, bridge designers...
...automation is certain to become ever more pervasive. If U.S. firms do not develop the most advanced systems, Japanese or South Korean or European companies are sure to do so. "American industry faces an extremely competitive situation," says Tandem President James Treybig. "AT&T is fighting to be in the forefront of technology, and there is some cost to staying in front." If Treybig is right, temporary setbacks are just the price of progress. But incidents like last week's are sure to influence the priorities of technology shoppers: reliability will be just as important as clever ads and fancy...