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...divine retribution on over-programmed programmers would be a neat way for a deity to get back at Harvard, the institution once devoted to the study of God and now devoted to the study of art, nature, society, technology, money and power. As those who sit at the apex of the esoteric and the practical, computer science students would be perfect subjects for divine wrath...
When president Clinton signed the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IRAIRA) last September, the public debate about immigration had reached an apex; even defenders of unlimited legal immigration recognized the need to change how the U.S. government deals with the issue...
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Rawlins was extremely active in recruiting new council members this fall, and several council members said they fear excessive influence at the council's apex...
With his performance as Howard Brackett in In & Out--the Frank Oz comedy about an Indiana schoolteacher who is outed as a homosexual during a former student's televised acceptance speech at the Oscars--Kline brings his Shakespearean inner torment to a comic apex. "I always assumed he'd always known he was gay since adolescence," Kline says of the character. "But like most of us, he has found a way to accommodate that denial." His portrayal of Ben Hood, a father torn between responsibility and lust in The Ice Storm, a 1970s period drama set in suburban Connecticut, also...