Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...likes to say that kind of thing. "I don't really care what the polls say; I'm not a poll-driven politician," he said later the same day. "If people don't agree, that's all right. We'll go fishin' in Texas." But what once sounded charmingly normal--I can take this or leave this--was starting to sound arrogant. When he appeared Saturday afternoon in Milford with brothers and sister and parents in tow, at an event in, of all perfect places, an indoor tennis club, wearing a Texas Rangers jacket with an imperial gold star...
...tries to lead as normal and active a social life as possible...
Last Sunday, in addition to the normal 60 or so council members, large numbers of black students, members of the Harvard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, attended a long and unwieldy council meeting on the constitutionality of the impeachment process. The word race was not mentioned once during the meeting, but its influence was felt in every section of the room. Some council members uttered disparaging words under their breath; others sighed in exasperation. But more than anything else...
When a site has been hacked, its appearance is often altered by chest-beating hackers who leave the cyber equivalent of a "Kilroy was here" scrawl. This week's attacks, on the other hand, bombarded various high-traffic sites with an overflow of information, effectively shutting down normal operations. How do the perpetrators send so much data so quickly? Apparently, the most recent assaults are not typical denial of service pranks, which generally are sent from only one or two computers at a time. "These people scan the Internet for vulnerable systems, and they hack into those systems, and then...
...Bright Hockey Center holds about 3,000 people. My guess is that 2,000 of those seats were occupied by Cornell fans. Being in a major city such as Boston, it is normal for graduates from an opposing teams to attend games. But a good number of these fans were students who made the six hour drive to Boston. Why don't Harvard students make the six minute walk across the river...