Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this way, the era of great Harvard pranks ended. Students have tried a few since, most notably the riots of 1969, but Harvard has ensured the safety of its students by keeping a fit police force and preventing universal keycard access. But by and large, the practice of pranking has moved downriver...
Professors may gain access to research fundingand to patented technologies held only by thefirms...
Over the past two years, Microsoft has used its enormous financial clout and standard-setting power to dip its hands into many areas on-line: news (MSNBC), consumer Internet access (Web TV), and travel reservations. And partly for this reason, Microsoft has become extremely controversial of late. The Justice Department lawsuit filed last fall over the earlier consent degree is still ongoing, and may be expanded next month. Several states' attorneys general are investigating Microsoft's trade practices, as is the European Union. More recently, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) held committee hearings in early March questioning whether...
...rural setting he'd been brought up for, or even a modest measure of success as a lawyer, his only future certainties would be sacrifice and suffering, with little hope of success in a country in which centuries of colonial rule had concentrated all political and military power, all access to education, and most of the wealth in the hands of the white minority. The classic conditions for a successful revolution were almost wholly absent: the great mass of have-nots had been humbled into docile collusion, the geographic expanse of the country hampered communication and mobility, and the prospects...
...tribalism. "The genocide philosophy was created in the colonial period to divide people who shared a common culture," he says. In the 1920s, Belgian colonial authorities classified Rwandans into different tribes. One group of families, whom the Belgians called Tutsi, was given the advantages of Western culture, such as access to schools. The rest were labeled Hutu. The Belgians claimed that Tutsi were cattle keepers and that Hutu mainly raised crops, but the division was arbitrary. "The Hutu and Tutsi are one people, with one language, who eat the same food and dress the same way," Bizimana says. "We follow...