Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ruling that the on-line service was responsible for a comment posted by an anonymous user. Part of the rationale for the decision was that Prodigy does do some monitoring of its content and therefore, like a publisher, is liable. This decision leaves such companies in the awkward position of having to either leave their content entirely unabridged, or monitor it with a ridiculous degree of stringency. However, there was another, more heartening legal precedent set recently. Federal judge Leonie M. Brinkema, in a case brought in Virginia by the Church of Scientology, admonished the Church for using copyright...
...daughter to survive the act of love by closing her eyes and concentrating on the British Empire. Marriage in this crowd is a patriotic duty, not a pleasure; and the consort--Philip in the case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship and love. Camilla Parker Bowles was his real partner, Diana just a means of reproduction...
...reason Melissa Gibson's Deedee-as-ghost ran laps around the stage while nastily berating poor Jane. Why was she berating her? Aaron Mathes seemed to have difficulty with Tarilc While he was appealing (mostly for lack of any positive male characters), his mood changes and facial expressions were awkward as well as unexplained. Santiago Tapia delivered Samir's lines unsure of appropriate emphasis. He did not seem comfortable moving around the stage. As the purely evil Nader, Andrew Pitcher was more believable, but he also could not stand still...
...equivalent staff employed by Harvard in support of public service activities, a number that had increased sharply in just four years. These staff have been divided between two offices, Phillips Brooks House and the Office of Public Service Programs, each with its own administrative director and separate budget. Surmounting awkward problems of coordination, these offices have worked with student organizations that initiate and execute their own programming, including both the student-run Phillips Brooks House Association and the HAND committees based in the residential and non-residential houses, as well as unaffiliated undergraduate organizations such as CityStep...
...undergraduate were grading an English paper of mine, I would feel awkward," Seims says. "But grading in the sciences is much more algorithmic. If I felt someone gave me a bad grade, I could ask him to justify the points he took off, and if I was graded unfairly, it would be pretty easy to establish...