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...sport or profit or the fun of committing large-scale vandalism. And for a growing number, the motivation is ideological or nationalistic. Cybercops have begun focusing on a small number of hacker havens--similar to money-laundering havens--where lax or nonexistent laws, corrupt and incompetent authorities, and adept programmers conspire to pose a threat to computer systems worldwide...
...intense an action film as it may be, Gladiator fails as a full-fledged epic. Scott has never been particularly adept at the human aspect of his stories (it's no coincidence that Blade Runner is his best film) and here the human relationships are often severely lacking, cold even. The friendship between Maximus and a fellow gladiator (played by Amistad's Djimon Hounsou) has no emotional resonance, nor does his bland romance (if you want to call it that) with the emperor's sister (Connie Nielsen). And as wonderful as Crowe is, the detached nature of his character (mostly...
Botterill did not win any awards at the banquet, but she was named the ECAC Player of the Year. Botterill replaced A.J. Mleczko '99, a former ECAC Player of the Year, as the top-line center and proved equally adept as both a scorer and a distributor, recording 31 assists and 31 goals...
...This is especially evident in his adept handling of a rape that transpires between Altenburg waitress Connie Schubert and nomadic American real estate salesman, Harry Nelson. The reader is left partially eroticized, partially violated, yet wholly satisfied after a mere six pages...
Kolakowski's work, most of which involves crimes against children, can be tedious: he and two fellow deputies, also Gen Xers adept at navigating the Internet, often spend months probing chat rooms and websites. And even after the deputies pull off a successful sting and arrest, antiquated state laws can make it difficult to win a conviction. The situation frustrates Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano. "It's like being on the side of the freeway where everybody's speeding," he says. "You get some, but so many just blow right...