Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone online can the online service be held responsible? That's the issue being decided in New York's State Supreme Court. A Long Island financial firm, Stratton Oakmont, sued Prodigy -- one of theonline world's Big Three-- claiming that it was unfairly accused of fraud on a Prodigy bulletin board. Prodigy, like other online service providers have always said they're simply a communications conduit -- much like a phone company -- and have claimed that they're not responsible for what their customers post. "Liability," says Kent Stuckey, general counsel of Compuserve, "could present a chilling effect on the free...
...including the sexually explicit words and pictures in such USENET newsgroups as alt.sex and rec.arts.erotica. Those days may be over, at least at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. According to a new policy scheduled to go into effect this week, C.M.U. will no longer distribute dozens of sexually oriented bulletin boards -- even those that are primarily discussion groups. Experts in constitutional law say C.M.U.'s new policy may be ill advised. "The idea that you can't discuss sex in a university is absurd," says Mike Godwin, staff counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Have they given any thought...
...fire of South Central Los Angeles was too harrowing. With ruthless budgeting, they managed to pay for private schools for six years, but tuition was just too high, and they were not satisfied with what it bought. So the couple converted their basement into a classroom with three desks, bulletin boards and two computers. Now their children get dressed every morning as if headed to school and are required to report to the basement by 9 a.m. Brad, who doesn't start work as a Federal Express delivery man until 3 p.m., handles most of the teaching. They work until...
When "The Secret Rapture" first aired in New York six months ago, it received rave reviews in the New York Times, which depicted it as both a riveting psychological thriller and a social portrait of English capitalism in the Eighties. The Harvard Film Archive bulletin quotes one reviewer's high praise: "When the Oscars are handed out, make room for "The Secret Rapture." It's a staggering achievement...
Cole was extraordinarily image conscious as well. In the ACBL. Bulletin's June 1992 edition, Brent Manley wrote a four-paragraph review of Fishheads. Manley concluded that while the book is "often silly," the tactics described in the text are "interesting and fun--a decent collection for those who appreciate such artistry...