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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservative parents want software that will censor any Website that the Rev. Jerry Falwell wouldn't say amen to, that's their privilege. But free-speech proponents say customers looking for ideology-free screening might not be aware of how much they're missing. Censorware produces unpredictable and often unwanted results (see box), and most filterers consider their blacklists trade secrets. This puts Loudoun County in the position of letting private firms pass judgment on the contents of a medium that's supposed to offer easy access to all--a notion that's especially dubious in the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENSOR'S SENSIBILITY | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...head of the table and everyone in the hall stands in silence. A meek-looking undergraduate approaches High Table from the floor, and launches into a dialogue, completely in Latin, with the Master. The college grace lasts four and a half minutes and includes several false endings punctuated by 'Amen'. The student retreats back to the lower classes, and then dinner--served this way six times a week--begins...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: To Be Part of History | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...poses with her shirt open in Maxim)--can disguise the creeping feminization of men's magazines. This brings up a terrifying specter from decades past that Cooper, for one, is quick to exorcize. "Alan Alda," he says during a discussion of potential cover subjects, "is not a GQ hero." Amen to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARE WE NOT MEN'S MAGAZINES? | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...such attention to himself is a mystery. Maybe, given his gift for aphorism, he's thinking about going out on the corporate lecture circuit. "There's enough people to shoot in the head without looking for it all the time," he tells Maas--words any manager could live by. Amen, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BULL SESSION? | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...self-image. "You better believe that I give a damn now, because I know what comes first," she says. "God comes first. If I don't love him, I can't love anybody. And if I can't love me, I can't love nobody." Can she get an amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: MARY'S NEW WORLD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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