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Robert Ludlum knows what all successful storytellers and hamburger makers know: the public likes consistency. A Ludlum novel reads like a Ludlum novel, just as a Big Mac tastes like a Big Mac. The Bourne Supremacy is doubly familiar. The hairy-chested prose ("No man was a match for him; no eyes, no throat, no groin safe from an assault, swift and agonizing") and the conspiratorial plotting are stock Ludlum. So is the hero, Jason Bourne. Readers of The Bourne Identity (1980) will recognize him as the cover name for David Webb, the American Orientalist who was used to lure...
After losing in their debut at the MAC earlier this week, the women fencers whipped both visiting teams, 12-4, upping their record to 7-5 overall...
...Harvard selling computers hurts us very much," said the Coop's Peter Chew, a buyer for the store's wounded computer department. "The Mac especially hurt us--there's just no way we can compete...
...About a quarter to eleven people started coming up to me and giving me tickets," says Bell. "There must have been 20 to 25 people." The tickets, which were each good for one dance with Bell, had been made on a Mac. "I wasn't planning on going to the unveiling party," says Bell...
Since the imposition of Jim MacCrow at the Science Center, these former Mac Users are now branded "Mac Abusers" if they dare venture into the segregated computer room. Unable to return to pre-modern methods of production, and without the capital to purchase the contemporary means for themselves, they are forced to lead a marginal existence in the Computer Age. Living off the benificence of Mac-owning friends and acquaintences, these pathetic souls never know where their next slot of computer-time will come from. Some have even been driven to the personals columns of local newspapers. "Single, male, good...