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Faculty members stood on night guard in Widener Library to protect the collection. Roving bands harassed some classes that tried to meet. Political factions formed, mutated and reformed, each with their own twist on the six, seven or eight demands. The Faculty met and met again under crisis conditions...
...each new phone added to the system (because it gives everyone on the network one more person to call), so does the value of a computer system increase with each program that runs on it. This is what Stanford economist Brian Arthur calls the law of increasing returns-a twist on the classic law of diminishing returns...
...drug-dealing Arab pre-teens in Bye-Bye, set in Marseilles, the only moral imperative is to stay alive. In another French drama, Le Plus Bel Age ... (Those Were the Days), middle-class students indulge in sadistic occult rituals. The film's gruesome hazing scene suggests a twist on the famous Groucho Marx line: I wouldn't want to join any club that would have me dismembered...
...same plan was put to Wilson several months ago by former G.O.P. national chairman Rich Bond (before he signed with Dole). "But we'd offer a twist," says a Wilson adviser. "Sending a message is fine, we'll say, but why waste your vote? Pete's the only moderate with a real chance of stopping Dole." "We'll nuke 'em if they try that," says Stone, pointing to Wilson's "multiple choice" record on abortion. "He used to favor government funding for abortions for poor women, but doesn't any longer, and twice when he was a Senator he cast...
...stunning twist to Sunday's murder-suicide in Dunster House, authorities are trying to determine if a letter delivered to The Crimson last week suggests that the killing may have been premeditated...