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Getting students organized used to mean buying a Trapper Keeper and hoping homework didn't fall out. But this fall a handful of schools have supplied students with the same wireless Palm Pilots used by hyper-scheduled executives. More portable and less pricey--$200, vs. about $2,000--than the laptops doled out by schools in recent years, the hand-held computers give students Internet access and allow teachers to "beam" them their grades and homework assignments. Add-ons include a "due yesterday" feature that dings when schoolwork is tardy and an attachable probe that measures pH in science labs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quick Study | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...people who were in the film scene there, people who went to theater, plays, were happily involved in the local music scene...But there was also a huge group of Harvard and Ivy people, either graduates or summer joblings, who were miserable. I think that's my point: happy vs. miserable...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Food Fight | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...means. Chilling ballads and tortured rock songs backed with acoustic and electric instruments proved Yorke and the boys to be prolific musicians, while the album's commercial success established Radiohead as one of the most creative and experimental mainstream bands of the mid-nineties, not applicable to the Blur-vs.-Oasis Battle of the Brit Bands. "High and Dry," "Just" and "Fake Plastic Trees" (immortalized in Clueless as Cher makes that "whiny college radio song" remark and shuts off the stereo) became instant radio (and MTV) hits...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Future Shock: 'Kid A' | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

Amidst a sea of Gore, Bush and Nader signs, pro-Palestinian demonstrators carried placards reading, "Israel Must Respect International Law," "Sharon Hoots: Barak Shoots" and "Helicopter vs. Children: Not Fair...

Author: By Kristoffer A. Garin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Protestors Demand U.S. Withdraw Israeli Aid | 10/4/2000 | See Source »

Those are the results of a straw poll conducted after a debate last night between the Harvard Law School Democrats and the school's Republican Club, entitled "Grudge Match 2000: Dems vs...

Author: By Zachary Z Norman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Law Students Hold Rowdy Pre-Debate | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

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