Word: acted
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...Privacy of Computing Act requested that the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services stop making "publicly available" user-locating functions such as finger, last...
...women are encouraged to be like men, and what a mess it is. The refined has been replaced by the vulgar, and sex has become just the thing you do on the third date. Is it surprising that girls lack self-esteem, that sexual harassment abounds, that men act like boys and women ultimately sit home alone? If only we could go back...
Bangkok-based filmmaker/activist Ing Kanjanavanit isn't appeased. "This battle isn't just over one cove on a small remote island; it's over the institution of our National Park Act itself," she says. "For 10 years the government tried to defang it and open up parks for tourism de-velopment. In this case, the studio's agenda and the government's agenda met." Kanjanavanit, who can no longer speak about The Beach situation without crying, says families and friends on the neighboring island Phi Phi Don have split over the controversy. She's right about that. "Many people...
...years, credit-card companies have been after Congress to allow Americans to charge their tax bills, a move that Congress finally authorized in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. The IRS started a pilot program in January that permits you to charge 1998 federal taxes (and only 1998) on MasterCard, American Express or Discover. You simply phone 1-888-2PAY-TAX or, if you are a Discover-card holder, pay over the Internet via Intuit's TurboTax software...
...video is deliciously subversive. In asense, Madonna consciously sheds layers of herpostmodern act during the 4:25 minute video,daring us to piece together its clues. At thebeginning, she stands upon a raised platform infull Geisha costume (eerily enough, she resemblesMarilyn Manson with a fluorescent band of makeupacross her eyes). She holds a baby wrapped inglowing plastic. The scene seems comfortablyserene--until we realize that Geisha Madonna isn'tholding a baby. The plastic bag is empty...