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...What irks us are not the creepy traitors of super-power relations but the sanctimonious hypocrites of everyday life. The people who preach one thing and do the opposite. Who practice the very sins they persecute in others. Elmer Gantry. Jim Bakker. And, speaking of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. There's a special satisfaction when they get their comeuppance...
...plan that's most worrisome. According to HASCS, the FAS network will soon be placed behind a broad "firewall" that would prevent the outside world from accessing data on students' computers. Ostensibly, HASCS plans to carve out certain exceptions so that the wall will be "transparent" for everyday usage. Instant-messaging and file-downloading, for example, will be unaffected. For students with more specialized computing needs, attending a short educational session about network usage will be enough to be exempt from the firewall altogether...
...DIED. RODOLFO MORALES, 75, mild-mannered Mexican painter whose colorful, surreal renderings of everyday rural Mexico won international acclaim; in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wary of fame, Morales returned to the dusty Indian village where he grew up and spent the last 16 years of his life using money earned from his works to restore the crumbling monuments of his homeland and promote Mexican art and culture...
...Some people say, 'Please have grapefruit juice everyday,' but actually grapefruit is our least popular juice," McGahey says. "We would never conisder taking away Coke and orange juice. But we might take All-Bran off if students say that they need Golden Grahams...
...shot per scene. "The movie changes as we go along," says Mori. In the film Sonatine, the actor Ren Osugi's character was supposed to die in one of the first scenes. But Beat liked his performance so much, he kept him in the film until the end. "Everyday, I thought, OK, today I am going to die," says Osugi. "I never knew what my character was going...