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Tsomides also started coxing at Exeter; in 9th grade, to be exact, when everyone had to participate in a sport. He was small at the time, and someone suggested he try out as a coxswain for the crew. "I really enjoyed it." Coxing, in fact, was one of the reasons Tsomides decided to attend Harvard. Almost everyone receives the form letter from rowing coach Harry Parker, but it usually does not arrive until after he's been admitted to the College. Tsomides, though, confesses his letter began "Dean Mr. Tsomides...
Such words babble up in all corners of society, wherever anybody is ax-grinding, arm-twisting, backscratching, sweet-talking. Political blather leans sharply to words (peace, prosperity) whose moving powers outweigh exact meanings. Merchandising depends on adjectives (new, improved) that must be continually recharged with notions that entice people to buy. In casual conversation, emotional stuffing is lent to words by inflection and gesture: the innocent phrase, "Thanks a lot," is frequently a vehicle for heaping servings of irritation. Traffic in opinion-heavy language is universal simply because most people, as C.S. Lewis puts it, are "more anxious to express...
Diagnosis, of course, is far from an exact science. Respected specialists will examine the same set of symptoms and arrive at different conclusions. Most medical decisions are educated guesswork; nevertheless, the computers are already functioning well. A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association states that one SUMEX program performed at a level comparable to that of five medical experts at Stanford. William Baker, NIH administrator for the SUMEX project, says that a computer system at the University of Pittsburgh called CADUCEUS is so sophisticated that it "would be a board-certified internist if it were human." Pittsburgh...
Aides to the three gubernatorial candidates in each party all said they have the 10,000 necessary signatures, though Republican John W. Sears '52 is uncertain of an exact count. Saugus businessman Francis P. Rich is running as an independent and needs 40,000 signatures. Last night he said he was still waiting for returns from the western part of the state, adding that the search would "go down to the wire...
Reardon said that although the exact cause of the leak had not been determined, he was confident that it would be fixed. "If the roof is leaking again, we'll fix it as soon as the snow is off." J. Lawrence Joyce director of Buildings and Grounds said yesterday...