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Albert F. Gordon Jr. '59, a frequent contributor to the University, said yesterday that Harvard administrators have used unorthodox accounting techniques to inflate Harvard's budget deficit, perhaps as a tactic to lure new donors...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistant," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...Show in Las Vegas with a little black box he hopes will be the "format" -- what VCRs and video cassettes were to home video in the 1980s -- that will run home systems in years to come. Ten years ago, when Hawkins vowed to build an entertainment- software empire with unorthodox technology, he had few believers. Today, after his Silicon Valley company, Electronic Arts, stole a huge chunk of market share from giant Nintendo with popular games like PGA Golf Tour, Chuck Yeager Air Combat and John Madden Football, he is taken seriously indeed...
...student's family sued Bean-Bayog last year, alleging she had driven him to his death by using an unorthodox treatment to regress Lozano, 28, to the psychological state of a three-year-old. The family also claimed that Bean-Bayog had seduced Lozano, and filed thousands of pages of documents in court as proof, including a set of flashcards she made for him which contained references to "phenomenal...
...namesake album intermingling soul, rock and blues hooks into a strikingly fresh hybrid. He also introduced a novel instrument in soul circles: a solo acoustic guitar, which vividly sets off his yearning, crackling voice. With its shifting rhythms and varied sonic textures, Seal shows that soul can accommodate unorthodox structures and a mystical tinge while still shining through handsomely...