Word: act
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...religious right, tends these days to limit his Bible-thumping to the use of faith-based organizations to do some of the government's work for it. It's a fine line that has mostly kept him out of trouble. The high quotient of religion in Lieberman's stump act, meanwhile, has civil libertarians worrying about separation and Christian conservatives wondering if Lieberman, as a Jew, is getting a free ride where Baptists fear to tread...
...primal emotions of childhood, in this case sibling rivalry. Danielle, 15, can't understand why her parents and friends find her pesky little brother Peter, 9, so endearing. He's always trying to horn in on her fun. When Danielle and a chum are practicing a mock-hypnotism act for a school skit, Peter--natch--insists that Danielle hypnotize him. Uh-oh. Not only does little brother go into a trance and come out of it with an alarming loss of memory, but also strange voices start emanating from the basement, calling Peter's name. What has Danielle done...
...order to play DVDs, Johanssen's program breaks the encryption that prevents them from being copied. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, that's a crime. Goldstein will appeal; his lawyer, Martin Garbus, who also defended Lenny Bruce and Timothy Leary, argues that software is self-expression and hence protected by the First Amendment. Furthermore, he asks, just because this application of the program is criminal, does that make the program itself criminal? U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan thought so. He wrote, in an occasionally impassioned 93-page ruling, that "the excitement of ready access...
...Africa's most powerful, as a fulcrum for democracy and capitalism he hopes will spread across the continent. "Your fight is America's fight and the world's fight," Clinton told the National Assembly in his keynote Saturday speech often punctured by applause. But the trip also seemed to act as a political tonic to a president in the twilight of a tenure marred by scandal: He was joyously serenaded by rapturous singers in a cavernous concrete Baptist church Sunday morning, and hailed by tribal chiefs and little children at a tiny village an hour outside Abuja in the afternoon...
...last when they judged that I insisted on being a pain in the neck, they did what I had waited for them to do: They did not fluster and flap up splashily in the way that, say, ducks do when disturbed; rather, they did the loon thing - the magic act. One after another, they elegantly beaked down and vanished without a trace. Poof! Submarines indeed. They dematerialized; they passed miraculously into the universe below...