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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...That sort of reasoning is the easy way out. We don't escape hard choices by ignoring them. There is a moral domain, even for Harvard graduates. And as far as choices are considered, perhaps the finest thing about Harvard is that it present you with many of them, with a corresponding responsibility...
Even if Los Angeles' limited experiment is successful, the technology will not necessarily be widely used. "This is real futuristic stuff," says Sean McAlinden, a researcher with the University of Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation. "It's sort of a Star Wars fantasy." Even Southern California Edison officials concede it would take billions of dollars and decades of public works to electrify the streets of Los Angeles. There may never be electric roads in the snowbound Midwest or in Eastern cities subject to the freeze-and-thaw cycles that turn the best-made highways into roller...
...That sort being in short supply, I decided to call up someone I don't know very well who seemed acceptable. He eats with silverware and doesn't blow his nose on his sleeve...
However, it is clear that the Tuesday parody was not the proper forum or method with which to go about social criticism of that sort. The issue, as should have been expected, ended up working at cross-purposes with some of the very groups it was intended to assist (the Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association; the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...word 'motor' seems a bit out of date and antiquated," said Matthew F. Dooling, the manager of the Harvard Manor House. "We changed our name to sort of update ourselves...