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...next-door neighbor was charged for having six tacks in his ceiling. Fifty bucks. Another dormmate was slapped with a $275 bill for things like hanging a picture on a nail that was pounded in before she came to Harvard. Several suites were charged $20 for having scotch tape on brick. My entry alone owes Harvard more than $1000 in "room misuse" fees...
...reasonable to argue that a student who makes tack holes in a wooden slat or uses tape on a painted wall is contributing to an eventual need for repair, and thus should incur an appropriate charge. But this charge shouldn't be 20 dollars per tack. The sums my dormmates have to pay for their sins grossly exceed the amount of damage done...
Stuart's story was made more believable by the media. First came broadcasts of the tape of his frantic call from his car phone to the police dispatcher as he fought off unconsciousness to summon aid for his dying wife. Then came videotape of the crime scene, recorded by a television crew that just happened to be traveling with emergency workers on the night of Oct. 23. Too gruesome to be broadcast in its entirety, it showed 30-year-old Carol Stuart, her head blasted open, her abdomen bulging, being pulled from the bloodstained front seat of the couple...
...Every major change in educational technology changes not only how we learn but also what we learn. Just as the printed book totally changed the curriculum of the schools, so are the computer and tape recorder and video. The printed book is primarily a tool for adults. The new tools are for children; they fit the way children learn best. We now know how to make the accumulated wisdom of the human race relevant again. We should know that the old approach to education is theoretical and unsound. We still believe that teaching and learning are two sides...
From the beginning there were questions about his story, but few would have believed that Stuart would shoot his wife in the head at point-blank range, then turn the gun on himself. The tape recording of his anguished ten-minute call to 911 from his Toyota Cressida, as his wife lay dying beside him, etched the crime in Boston's consciousness. "My wife's been shot. I've been shot," Stuart cried as a police dispatcher tried to keep him on the line long enough to determine his location. But Stuart gave no clues. He moaned...