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...read in your survey on happiness (Scrutiny, Feb. 3) that some Harvard undergraduates may be overworked and miserable. Having been there myself (the misery part, not the overwork), I have a few pearls of wisdom to cast before the community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Different Curriculum | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...read in your survey on happiness (Scrutiny, Feb. 3) that some Harvard undergraduates may be overworked and miserable. Having been there myself (the misery part, not the overwork), I have a few pearls of wisdom to cast before the community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...that he was creating a "pure" communist society and whatever he did was done for his country. "My conscience is clear," he told journalist Nate Thayer in a rare interview last October, never admitting his appalling conduct, never regretting the countless executions, the million more dead of starvation and overwork, the living population maimed in body or mind, the entire country reduced to Stone Age survival. Nineteen years after the hated Vietnamese drove him back into the jungle, the evil that he did lives on in Cambodia's traumatized society, poisoned politics, governmental misrule and pitiful piles of bleached-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Butcher Of Cambodia | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...biggest offender is the act of typing itself. We just were not made for it. Typing is counter-evolutionary. We evolved to chase cheetahs and bounce babies and roam free and use a variety of muscles, not sit for hours a day (or night) and overwork our weakest muscles by typing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARATUNDE R. THURSTON'S TechTalk | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

ValuJet maintenance chief David Gentry said his company accepted blame, but he insisted that it was SabreTech's job to equip the canisters with safety caps and pack the shipment properly. Failure to prevent this incompetence was laid to inspectors for the FAA, who complained that overwork and understaffing had made it tough to oversee the fast-growing ValuJet. Yet an FAA manager said he called for a review of ValuJet's authorization to fly three months before Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades shortly after taking off from Miami. The manager, John Tutora, said his report was ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAGEDY RETOLD: VALUJET CRASH | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

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