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...with every advance made by encoded plastic cards and automated billing systems, there have also been glitches or concerns about fraud and privacy. At Chemical Bank, for example, automated teller machines mistakenly deducted a total of $16 million from 100,000 customer accounts in February because of a typographical error in a single line of computer code. The bank bounced 430 checks as a result of the malfunction...
...greater error than Bill Buckner (well, maybe not). The next day, Tarek called me and assigned me a field hockey game...
Neither team scored in the last three regulation innings, setting the stage for Harvard's tenth-inning heroics. Junior Joe Weidenbach, pinch-hitting for Dennis Doble, led off the inning by reaching second on a two base error. After freshman Terry Hurt pinch ran for him, freshman Mike Hochanadel walked...
...crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination of musical precision with his discordant vocal impromptus...
With the recent passage of GATT, a hard-fought victory for free trade, it would be a serious error to start encouraging trade wars and undo the great progress that has been made towards a more cooperative world. There are also many humanitarian reasons to renew China's MFN status and preserve free trade, since the free movement of goods and services almost always leads to freer societies...