Word: barrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novelist. Their treasury of more than 400 epistles renders a more definitive portrait of America's past 99 years than would all the centennial books laid decade to decade. Some entries are moving (Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail), some comical (fugitive Clyde Barrow's 1934 note to Henry Ford, praising his "dandy" V8 getaway car). They add up to an exceptional bedside companion...
...share her passion. Her annual Romantic Times Booklovers' Convention draws some 5,000 and features a male beauty pageant and a costume ball. During a 1997 Romantic Times Convention in Baton Rouge, La., as hundreds of lady authors, would-be authors and romance-novel lovers milled about, Lady Barrow (she bought herself an English title) regally strolled the floor, greeting fans eager not just to meet her but also to pat the pet chicken that often perched on her shoulder. Truly, she swoons all the way to the bank...
...even as the chair of Harvard's economics department says the University may soon have to make Major League Baseball-style offers to hold on to academic stars like Barrow, President Neil L. Rudenstine reaffirmed this week Harvard's refusal to enter bidding wars for high-dollar scholars...
...September and October, Barrow said that MIT found evidence that persons outside of the MIT network had obtained the usernames and passwords of legitimate users. The "crackers" were able to obtain this data by intercepting non-encrypted information from e-mail programs like Telnet and Eudora...
...basic problem, Barrow said, is that MIT "runs an open network." As such, there is nothing to separate MIT's network from the Internet at large...