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...sheet goes on to threaten: "Disruptions will be treated seriously and may result in expulsion from the meeting, disciplinary action or arrest by civil authorities." This statement constitutes nothing less than plain totalitarian scare tactics...

Author: By Yawen Cheng and Hsph; Spokesperson, S | Title: Disingenuous Puppeteers | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...Jamaica Plain resident and a Somerville resident were arrested at 36 JFK St. after both parties were observed using drugs in the men's restroom...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Log of Police Activity | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...prescient. Here's the pitch: Websites are built using markup languages--sets of rules for displaying information on a Web page. Today's standard language, HTML (hypertext markup language), was chosen at the dawn of the Web for its simplicity and the ease with which it combined pictures with plain text. This very simplicity, though, makes the Web in its current form a very tough place to do business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEEPING TABS ONLINE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

When the Baby Boomers turned 40, we were treated to dissertations on how it felt to turn 40. Now they are 50, and it's as if they were the first generation ever to reach that milestone. Will the most self-centered, self-absorbed, self-important and just plain selfish generation in history ever stop whining and just grow up? THOMAS J. BROWNE Bridgewater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 10, 1997 | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...second act proclaims a cleverness and a sharp pragmatic bent which she has signally lacked beforehand. The Heiress seems to allow Catherine redemption on the condition that she acquire intelligence and agency; like Dr. Sloper himself, the playwrights will do nothing for Catherine so long as she is plain and retiring...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Heiress: A Long Line of Success | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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