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Most experts agree with Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple, who characterized comets as "dirty snowballs" consisting largely of ice and mineral-rich dust. Comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy debris believed to surround the solar system and extend out some 10 trillion miles from the sun. Passing stars sometimes dislodge snowballs from the cloud, which can sprout the classic luminous tails of gas and dust as they plunge toward the sun. Most comets whip around the sun and head back out of the solar system. Some, like Halley's, periodically return. But others...
...Romantic Cinema," is Woody Allen's newest effort, The Purple Rose of Cairo (Harvard Square). It's your type of movie. Mother, with Mia Farrow laboring in squalor to keep herself and her brutish husband (Danny Aiello) alive, and Jeff Daniels swooping down off the screen to save her. Fred Astaire even makes a brief appearance...
...think they would have had the forum if they were not going to take student opinions seriously," commented Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids Chair Fred Jewett '57, who has been rumored to be in the running for the dean slot...
...criteria] certainly would make the admissions process a lot easier on the committee, and I don't think we'd have any housing problem," says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids L. Fred Jewett '57 of the old admissions requirements...
...Fred Fletcher '88 ran a paper through his new spelling program one day, and lost the whole paper. Thorpe's roommate finished writing a paper one day, got up, stretched and kicked the power out, turning the computer off and losing his paper And the stories of 20-page papers lost though pushing one wrong button...