Word: appealing
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...beginning of this latest Robertson Davies novel, an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during Good Friday services. That scene is not explained until the end of "The Cunning Man" (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95). But TIME critic Paul Gray says the overriding appeal of works by "Canada's foremost living author" rarely rides on suspense. Instead, says Gray, the 81-year-old writer "entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture" of "keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating philosophical curiosity...
...largest single instance of software piracy ever uncovered, LaMacchia's case was thrown out last December by Massachusetts Federal Judge Richard Stearns, who decided that the senior from Rockville, Maryland, had in fact committed no crime at all. In January U.S. Attorney Donald Stern announced that he would not appeal the decision...
That outcome would be disastrous for the Internet, whose major appeal has been as a ``digital space'' where individuals and societies can explore freedom of expression and self-definition. That is why the fine line between legitimate deterrence and constitutionally protected speech is coming under increased scrutiny. ``If you `walk the beat' on the Internet too vigorously,'' says the Justice Department's Charney, ``you have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights.'' Rather than patrol the Net themselves, cybercops increasingly urge citizens to contact the FBI or the Secret Service if they learn about crimes or threats...
...opposed to cross-dressing per se, or social uncertainty as expressed in sexual ambiguity. And androgyny, of course has its illicit appeal. The liberating possibilities of cross-dressing do not entirely escape me. I don't submit to the totalitarian stranglehold of gendered dressing. When subtly scaled and done with a degree of ingenuity and creativity, who among us--male or female, can resist the allure of gossamer--it can be interesting, even thought-provoking. But I am opposed to the institutionalization and ritualization of the practice, which serves to eradicate real possibilities for creativity and imposes instead, a massmarket...
Weld's blend of fiscal conservatism and socialliberalism may not appeal to the Republicanactivists who tend to vote in primaries, saidMarkham Professor of Government H. Douglas Price...