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Having only access to the basic outline of the events she purported to describe Newmyer chose to compensate what her article lacked in substance with defamatory sensationalism: "at one point last spring, a flash-flood of resignation offers almost washed the Advocate away." Since Newmyer herself writes in the article's postscript that everybody privy to the Advocate Executive Board's proceedings last spring declined to comment it is hard to see how Newmyer is justified in fabricating fictitious renditions of those proceedings based on the bogus authority of "sources", "observers" and "veteran Advocate editors." Newmyer even has the audacity...
...revealing the council's expendability. Since the election of Beth A. Stewart '00, the era of student-centered reforms has narrowed the purpose of the council, clearing the fog of high-faluting progressive rhetoric only to illuminate the ornery fact that the council fails at some of its most basic tasks. Stewart may prove to be the council's Gorbachev...
Shopping agents, better known as bots, are practically prehistoric in Internet terms. They've been around in one form or another for four years. Their basic purpose is to search the Web and compare all the prices you can possibly pay for the same item, making you an expert bargain hunter in a single click. Once considered a threat to e-business--after all, sellers benefit when the consumer has incomplete knowledge of prices--bots are now on the buying list of every major player in the Internet industry. They're into their second generation and much improved. And they...
...Anywhere over 125 to 150 [students], the lecturer is giving a theater performance," De Vore said. "I learned this years ago. My strategy was just to sketch with very broad strokes basic theory and so on. The sections have been very important in this course for a long time...
This has been a week for kiosks and basic morality, morality grand and misjudged and morality small but significant. First, the latest from the Out of Town News kiosk: Religion has been in forefront of coverage in both Massachusetts and New York without much good reason. New York mayor Rudy "It's not art if I can do it" Guiliani has withdrawn funding from the Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibit "Sensation" because he's offended by a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung and surrounded by a collage of fragments from porn magazines. The First Amendment...