Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...night, Reeves had his wish, except it was Galluccio, and not him, who was elected mayor...
...giant cathedral warehouse where acres of laptops and television monitors and telephones and fax machines made a tremendous racket. Hunched journalists, attached to their keyboards and notebooks madly created copy while mumbling into phones and cursing sporadically; a wall of television screens flashed campaign coverage from every imaginable channel--except FOX--they preferred "Party of Five" over McCain. Huddled together, we stared at this splendor of technology and manpower. Alter flew off to another interview, and Franklin spied his heroine, Arianna Huffington while I discovered my hometown hero, the Boston Globe columnist, Mike Barnicle. Granted, he resigned from the Globe...
...according to social status is, to say the least, puzzling. It makes me wonder of how airlines stay afloat when they treat their passengers solely based on their pocketbooks. Knowing your social status, and acting accordingly, defines Confucianism--a train of thought that supposedly died long before this century. Except, it would seem, in the friendly skies...
Technical solutions will be slow in coming, and little can be done for now except to urge the technology industry to place a higher priority on issues of security usually buried in bug reports and fixed in infrequent updates. For the longer term, however, security should be integrated into the way we think about technology. Last month President Clinton proposed as part of his technology initiatives a college tuition subsidy for students who agree to study computer science and work after graduation for the federal government to improve computer security. This sort of "G.I. Bill" for computer security could...
...Harvard, computer officials say they expect few changes in coming months, except for the constant security upgrades they ordinarily make...