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...been a suspenseful spring in cyberspace. Everyone has felt it, from the folks who gather for online chats at Bianca's Smut Shack to the Netizens who post daily dispatches to the "fight censorship" E-mail list. The whole information revolution was jeopardized, the cybernauts believed, by a primly named federal statute called the Communications Decency Act. Signed into law by President Clinton on Feb. 8, after being passed by an admittedly Net-illiterate Congress, the CDA was supposed to squelch online pornography and make the Net safe for children by banning "indecent" content. But the legislation was so vague...
...There is no evidence that sexually oriented material is the primary type of content on this new medium," they wrote. "Communications over the Internet do not 'invade' an individual's home or appear on one's computer screen unbidden." The judges found that dicey material--whether from Bianca's Smut Shack or Playboy magazine's hugely popular site--was generally preceded by warnings admonishing those under the age of 18 to keep out. Even the government's own expert witness acknowledged that the odds were slim that a user would come across a sexually explicit site by accident...
...Some peers were on the selection committee. Actually one of the women on the selection committee who's been on Phi Beta Kappa since junior year hand delivered the acceptance letter," said Bianca Hovey '95, a physics concentrator in Cabot House. "She was proud of me. To have a feeling that your peers are proud of you too is very special...
...removing the gun from the political arena in Northern Ireland." Adams, who just 13 months ago was barred from entering the United States, spent the day paying courtesy calls on members of Congress, then hosted a $200-a-plate lunch in New York that drew celebrities and politicos including Bianca Jagger, Tom Hayden and former Mayor David Dinkins. Expected haul...
...performance I attended, a few audience members got wet. When the three women who serve as the sea whip sheets at the boat members to affect a storm, the sheets came dangerously close to slapping me in the face. These three women (Anatavia Marie Brown, Ji-Ho Lee, and Bianca Hovey) played their parts with a pokerface and really wailed the cast members during the "storm...