Word: avoiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...easier to program them to perform all sorts of tasks. Perhaps the best way to protect against them is to--unlike me--actually follow the advice that most people give. Important files should be backed up and e-mail attachments shouldn't be opened until they're scanned. Avoid files with extensions that are unfamiliar, and most importantly if you're not expecting any attachments, don't open any files. Harvard makes it remarkably easy for us to do this through Pine, as well as offering us some decent anti-virus software. In addition to running that program often...
...election now. But Clinton gave Republicans no reason to revise their opinion, allowing a divisive social issue, gays in the military, to swamp the early weeks of his presidency and galvanize his opponents. Since Gore would have no political capital to spend, he would navigate with extreme care to avoid all ugly sideshows. And with Congress so evenly divided, he'd know he can't govern without convincing Republicans that he'll cooperate with them to get things done...
...need a Constitutional amendment to avoid another mess like Tuesday's, but it's unfair to blame the architects of the U.S. Constitution. They simply put the framework of an Electoral College into being, specifying that each state would choose an elector for each of its U.S. Senators and members of Congress. The rest was left to Congress and the states, and when the national party systems took shape in the 1820s, the states began to have voters choose party slates of electors when they voted for President. Most electoral-vote results became winner-take-all outcomes, which they remain...
...thing Clinton didn't mention was his own youthful opposition to the war, and his controversial attempts to avoid serving in it. Even though it's a major obsession of Clinton's critics and the press corps traveling with him, his staff says that it's never been an issue for the Vietnamese, and the Vietnamese seem to agree. I asked one student, who was born in 1979, whether she thought it was good that Clinton had opposed the war. She replied, "Did he? I didn't know that...
...Recording Industry Association of America has identified several Napster users from Harvard who engage in excessive file-sharing and urged Harvard to take action. HASCS has given the pertinent information to Senior Tutors, and those students are encouraged to disband their Napster files to avoid legal conflict...