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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agrees with Giamatti's general stance on college athletics, he hasn't taken such a hard lining stance. He feels that "what we retrying to do is walk a middle path between the big athletics powers with all the abuses that that entails, of schools like Swarthmore or Cal Tech where athletics is simply on a lower level of intercollegiate play. "Bok thinks that Harvard has so far followed this path and is guarded fairly well against the pressure of big-time college sports...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Philosophical Teammates, Institutional Foes | 11/20/1982 | See Source »

...virtues, the audience did essentially that--sat in the dark--while the 69-year-old Krapp listened to his own voice on a tape. The audience listened to him listen to himself, replay himself, and tape his reactions to the replays. Mercifully, by skillful use of some impressive high-tech equipment, director Adam Cherson has somewhat embellished the purity of this experience. In this new version, Krapp (David Gullette) sits facing a hidden video monitor, and his reproduced image faces the audience while the actor keeps his back to us, intently watching his younger self (Lorcan O'Neill...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Video Game | 11/9/1982 | See Source »

...seemed like just the sort of sales coup that a fast-tracking high-tech firm would want to talk up. Thus when Andrew Corp. of Orland Park, Ill., which makes sophisticated telecommunications gear, managed to land a $3.5 million contract to supply microwave antennas to a French firm, company officials preened publicly at their achievement. The customer, Thomson-CSF, would be using the equipment to help establish a complex communications network that would serve much of the Yamal region of Soviet Siberia, where the U.S.S.R.'s vast 3,700-mile natural gas pipeline to Western Europe would originate. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escape Hatch | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

Wall Street followers of the company are still puzzling over Xerox's offer last month to pay some $1.6 billion in cash and stock for Crum & Forster, the 18th largest U.S. property and casualty insurer. High-tech Xerox in the insurance business? To many analysts, it seemed anomalous, a radical and inappropriate diversification of resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xerox's Struggle to Get into Focus | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...corridors inside are long, green and dimly lit; the walls are bare except for a spray of handwritten signs and arrows and random words scrawled on them, often in several handwritings. One of these appears every few yards: "Polish, Hebrew, Chinese." "Sufism, Hebrew, Polish, Czech." "Polish, Chinese, Hebrew, Tech Writing." "Turkish in 6 Divinity...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Harvard's Craziest Building | 10/14/1982 | See Source »

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