Word: context
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Club Dead is essentially a role-playing game in the context of a who-done-it mystery. The setting is the year 2024; the main character is Sam Frost, a convict addicted to "V," an illegal form of virtual reality. Sam is hired to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at a posh resort where the rich and famous come for illicit "V" experiences. Sam is given four days to solve the mystery...
...Senate intern this summer, I saw Gramm's principles in action on an issue that put his high-minded rhetoric of freedom in its proper context. As the Senate debated the appropriations bill for the Department of Justice, one of the funding items was the Legal Services Corporation, an agency that provides legal assistance to the poor. Gramm offered a "very, very simple" amendment that would bar any Legal Services money from funding any lawsuit "that would have the effect of nullifying any provision of Federal or State law which seeks to reform welfare...
...Context: The urbane garden party at which I met Keanu was a low-stress situation. He didn't have to deliver a teleprompted speech the next day. He was there to have a little fun until the sun came up over Santa Monica Boulevard. Barbra was buried in a swarm of Harvard security, while Keanu merely...
Sackler Museum. Through Dec. 30. "American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts." The first major survey of Harvard University's art collections in over 20 years provides a critical examination of art and material culture drawn from Harvard's museums and libraries in the context of interdisciplinary studies and revisionist scholarship...
...course, it points out an error), most journalists are likely to take the complaints into account in future stories -- and there's nothing wrong with that. A healthy dialogue with readers can be productive, but it also tests some of the rules and conventions of the Net. Though the context of most bulletin- board exchanges is closer to that of a cocktail party than it is to a press conference, prudent journalists must assume that their E-mail postings carry the same legal risks as print or broadcast information. But the law in cyberspace is still being written. In most...