Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Laundry at Harvard is a far more difficult process than it ought to be. About the time you're half-way across the courtyard (because it would be entirely too convenient for Harvard to have located laundry machines in the basement of every first-year dorm), you realize that a t-shirt, sweats and flip-flops aren't about to cut it when the temperature is 40 below. Of course, when you finally get to the laundry room, you find that the one deranged person who woke up before ten to do his laundry has used...
...task now falls to Mazzoleni to reverse the flow of history and restore the glory of the Harvard program. It's a long term process, but the Beanpot is getting way too predictable...
...obvious. By junior year, we've all got similar benchmarks. Everybody can tell whether the professor is organized or the reading is superfluous. But the diversity of opinion that exists during shopping week has shrunk, by the end of the semester, to a comfortable homogeneity. Is this a natural process? Or a strange kind of mob psychology...
...Occasionally I've been surprised to find a required class with a bad reputation quite enjoyable. The problem is not that bad reputations are acquired too hastily and good ones take time--nothing is so easy. Instead it seems that fair and unfair reputations are results of the same process, the same sets of intuition, reaction and details...
...that e-vandals have flexed their muscles in a very public forum, bringing the world's most popular web site to a grinding halt, it's safe to say there will be increasingly creative attempts to foil hackers altogether. That will be a very tough, if not impossible process, says Quittner. "Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot companies can do to prevent this kind of strike." Of course, this is the world of high tech, where explosive growth and insight are part of the daily grind, and where triumphant anti-hacker software could be just around the corner. Just...