Word: coding
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...town hall meeting Monday night, a representative of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) called for the school to adopt an anti-harassment code protecting students from racial insensitivity...
...don’t think anybody is posing a speech code,” she said. “I think it’s similar to the way in which we have a sexual harrassment policy that took years of work, and I think the process to get a more expansive harrassment code...is going to take a significant amount of time...
Republicans want to make permanent last year's $1.35 trillion tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire in 2010. In the Senate, some members will push to cut capital-gains taxes, eliminate the estate tax and completely overhaul the tax code. In the House, Republicans want a package that would allow small investors to write off as much as $9,000 in stock-market losses instead of the current $3,000. Who cares about the budget deficit...
...Other meanings emerge when reading "Blood Song" with a more poetic sense. The two big themes of Eric Drooker's work have always been the individual vs. the state and nature vs. technology. (He even overlays animals on the UPC code of his books.) In "Blood Song," often these themes will overlap as when the young woman flees the police. The chase transforms into an ecstatic dance amid traffic lights, parking meters and pedestrians. Her skeleton becomes visible through her skin, juxtaposing her corporeal self against the unnatural trapping of a metropolis...
...ludicrous that the Business School administration complained about two words in the bottom left corner of a cartoon mocking a computer program. It is dismaying that these administrators took this as an excuse to use a broad campus speech code to threaten the editorial freedom of an independent newspaper...