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Mike was intense and brilliant; he had a persistent devotion to excellence that was unusual by even the most stringent criterion. At the debate camp we attended in Colorado, he worked harder than anyone else and earned its highest recognition, the pretentiously-titled Philosopher King award. Nothing made Mike prouder than to see his efforts rewarded with recognition; he set high standards for himself and usually exceeded them triumphantly...
...users around long enough to kick off its own pay-for-play system in June with an investment by Bertelsmann. Now, with an evidently impatient Bertelsmann getting in on the MusicNet deal, Napster will be a beggar at that banquet - executives at the new service are already imposing stringent conditions about security and legality on Napster's eventual inclusion...
...problems. The officials point out that a special bilateral commission began negotiations on the problem more than a year ago. They also note that the transmitters fall well within the limits for electromagnetic emissions established by the European Union, and that Italy is the only E.U. country with more stringent rules. "We're in good company on an international and European level," says Vatican Radio's general director, Father Pasquale Borgomeo, one of the Jesuits who was to have been questioned. "How can we think that 14 out of 15 countries are being run by irresponsible or incompetent people...
...David-and-Goliath knock-down, drag-out fight--the people against city hall." In the November election, the battleground was competing ballot propositions. Prop L, advanced by artists and activists, would have protected artists' spaces from dotcom takeovers, while Mayor Willie Brown's Prop K would have set less stringent limits on new office development. Both propositions lost--L by a razor-thin margin. But the people may be gaining the upper hand. In December's district runoff elections, the 11-member board of supervisors swerved sharply to the left, upsetting the mayor's politically moderate, growth-friendly power base...
...mirrored by a BGLT individual feeling "unnerved" that their sexual orientation is considered an issue involving other people's morality at all. To seek moral evaluation of another person's sexual preference is, in some sense, to presume that the person in question has not made their own stringent moral evaluation already. As a "straight" male, I have never had much cause to decide whether the entire body of my sexual desire was moral or not, and I hold in high regard those of us who are strong enough to undergo the moral and emotional self-examination that this entails...