Word: panic
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...First Amendment rights protect language, even language some may find offensive. But is this just offensive language? Or is it essentially a call to arms - and therefore not protected under the First Amendment? Comparisons have been made with someone who shouts "Fire!" in a crowded theater, thus causing a panic - speech that is not protected...
...This report could send some members of congressional appropriations committees running back for their notes - to date, schools have received almost $4 billion in federal aid earmarked for computers and Internet access. No one should panic just yet, though: Conflicting studies evaluating the benefits of computers are published often. And until we reach something resembling a consensus, we'll still be a very long way from turning our G-3s into fishbowls...
...class I thought of it as more like P.E. than Philosophy 101. And while it's true I will be sore the next morning from bending over Little Anne and pounding on her chest, I return from lunch for the afternoon defibrillator session with the kind of metaphysical panic I remember from the Nietzsche unit in freshman year...
...Senate race. McCollum, 56, whose role as a prosecutor in President Clinton's impeachment trial sharpened his image as a partisan pit bull, is barnstorming Jacksonville homeless shelters and African-American churches in his Orlando district insisting that the more moderate conservative "is who I really am." Panic hasn't set in yet; but Nelson bets that "this is where the Republican jihad is going to be waged. The stakes are too high...
...talk to people, and I'm going to do a lot of it," Bush told workers in a Pennsylvania factory Thursday, unveiling a new campaign slogan ("Real plans for real people") and some new campaign plans. This thinking out loud - occasioned, no doubt, by some signs of mild panic in Republican ranks over the fact that Al Gore appears to have not only reeled in the Texas governor's lead, but even to have overtaken him in the polls since before Labor Day - is even worse when he's talking to journalists. "I'd like to be able...