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...core financials and the systems that looked to threaten human safety have, for the most part, been reprogrammed to be able to deal with the date change. And to test the effect of these corrective measures, the University has turned the clock forward to make sure its important machinery doesn't shut down...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: deadline to debug | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...even if Harvard won't admit it, attacks byBuchanan and others who hope to claim a piece of"diversity" for themselves threaten to damage thelegitimacy of Harvard admissions'community-building project...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diversity Dilemmas | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...recent article in the New York Times,Simpson describes President Bill Clinton's habitof saving his political career just as a newscandal appears to threaten...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senator With a Smile | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

Passed unanimously by Republicans and Democrats on the nine-member committee, the Cox report depicts a relentlessly malevolent China steadily stripping away every American military secret to threaten the U.S. with deadly new nuclear missiles. It slips close to hysteria, though, when it says, for example, that every one of the 80,000 Chinese who travel annually to the U.S. is tasked by military-intelligence officials to glean technological tidbits, or that 3,000 U.S.-based "front" companies do the bidding of hidden Beijing connections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Cold War? | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...year's scare would be the astronomical equivalent of crying wolf and could lead to public indifference. But news of 1999 AN10 spurred other astronomers to track the asteroid. They posited that the tug of terrestrial gravity during the 2027 flyby could change the asteroid's orbit enough to threaten Earth during a 2044 passage. Indeed, say astronomers, 1999 AN10's path will remain dangerously close to Earth's orbit for the next 600 years. Maybe the budget increase will be passed by then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: And Now, Something Else to Worry About | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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