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...know the six necessary commands and will continue to do so for the rest of the week. But when I sit in front of a computer, I'm still helpless. When an unfamiliar statement appears on the screen, I still have to roam the halls of Pennypacker in search of a computer wizard. Last week I was one of the great unwashed; today I am a QRR graduate. Yet in the end I am still computer illiterate...
...PAINTINGS ON VIEW IN the exhibitionare unfamiliar even to Americans at home in theworld of canvas and pigment. While the writers andmusicians of the period--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,Chekhov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky--have achievedworldwide fame, the visual artists remain largelyunknown outside of the Soviet Union. In the latenineteenth century Russian culture came into itsown, breaking free of the slavish imitation ofwestern norms that had plagued it since Peter theGreat first journeyed across the steppes in the1700s. The efforts of painters to forge a uniqueRussian artistic identity rivaled their literaryand musical counterparts in complexity, sincerityand originality...
Nobody in the United States would consider Harvard any but challenging as a college. But, were Harvard to start winning national championships, it could draw applicants from areas currently unfamiliar with the school...
Roger Goldberger was relaxing at home after work when the phone rang. As soon as he answered, an unfamiliar voice blurted out a string of obscenities, then the caller hung up. Goldberger, a department-store manager in Harrisburg, Pa., calmly pressed *69 on his telephone, triggering an automatic return of the call. A phone rang; the same male voice answered. "You just called my house, and I don't appreciate what you said!" shouted Goldberger. The stunned teenager mumbled an apology and then asked, "How did you know it was me?" "It was easy," Goldberger replied. "My telephone is smarter...
What a Weekend: The highlight of Friday's post-game press conference came when a reporter unfamiliar with the Crimson asked Lane MacDonald, "Is this the first two-goal game you've had this season...