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Since the early 1970s the largest communities of hackers have been found at three of the nation's leading computer centers: M.I.T., Stanford and Carnegie-Mellon. Carnegie-Mellon is perhaps the pre-eminent computer school in the nation. It has more terminals available to students, a more structured computer...
At first Koch seemed to have a group of estimable allies: the London Sunday Times, whose parent News Corporation bought (for an estimated $400,000) publication rights to the diaries within much of the British Commonwealth; eminent historians including Hugh Trevor-Roper, a Hitler scholar and Times director, who said...
For years it was commonly agreed that there was a Big Five among U.S. orchestras: in alphabetical order, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. For the most part, they were the orchestras with the biggest annual budgets and, partly...
The Los Angeles Philharmonic. With a conductor like Carlo Maria Giulini, 68, an annual budget of $17 million and record appearances on Deutsche Grammophon, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has the credentials for membership in the elect. Its sound is far from the brilliance of Chicago or St. Louis; Giulini, the...
Then, when the eminent Americans forcibly pressed Augusta National for birdies, the rolling course fitfully responded with bogeys. Unwittingly, Texans Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite overtook them all to finish second, four shots behind Ballesteros. "Play the course," the winner had counseled himself, "and be cool." Asked how his second...