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...first-year, he founded Boston Area Student Volunteers in the Community (BASIC), a group which sponsors a variety of social programs dealing with housing, the environment, hunger and homelessness...
From then on it was time for a first-rate showcase of Maas' signature "wet, hard funk," a genre-defying dance floor assault whose defining characteristic is its ability to create mass gyration on the dance floor. The basic tools-sirens, cricket chirps, claps and Maas' favorite sound effect, the synthesizer growl were not especially deft or inventive in themselves, but the insistent bass and driving beats kept the crowd eager for more. The stabs at drama, such as cutting the strobes to frame Maas between two columns of red light, were simple at best, but enthralling nonetheless...
...told, Gores record on gun control is not very impressive, and while his plans may sound more appealing to the uninformed American voter, they will ultimately prove ineffective in reducing violent crime. Bush brings a more pragmatic approach to gun laws, and his basic principles are reasonable. If he is declared the winner this week, Americans can rest assured that gun control will be dealt with judiciously over the next four years...
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...legislatures would also allow software companies to wait until after the sale is complete to reveal additional information about the license, or even to change the license conditions after the sale and then disable your programs if you refused to abide by the new conditions. Such laws undercut the basic consumer protections that have developed over the last century for familiar "brick-and-mortar" goods--and given that products from microwaves to cars now contain software, who knows how far these industry-friendly laws might reach...