Word: channelized
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...decided we wanted to use the energy of an election year, which is always bigger than in other years, and channel it into Harvard," he said...
Grand Avenue, premiering on HBO June 30 at 8 p.m. EDT (with later play dates as well), is indeed a rarity. It depicts a family of Native Americans, a culture seldom if ever explored on TV outside Discovery-channel documentaries. Displaced from a reservation to a gang-infested California town, Mollie (Sheila Tousey), the widowed matriarch, tries to quell her rage with drink; but the story ultimately belongs to her eldest daughter Justine (Deeny Dakota), who is battling her own history of despair. The teenager has never known her natural father, but when she finds him, her pain is deepened...
...carrier, adds the lucrative Washington-London route to its expanding U.S. service. Virgin Publishing is poised to snag American book readers. In Europe, Branson is starting up a cut-price airline, Virgin Express; he's part of a group taking over the ailing Eurostar train service under the English Channel; he has launched an over-the-phone life-insurance and health-insurance business in Britain called Virgin Direct; and his new British mutual fund is going gangbusters. As if all this weren't enough to keep him busy, in November he hopes to fly around the world nonstop...
...court went further than the most ardent civil libertarians had dreamed. In a striking 175-page memorandum that was published online within minutes of being handed down, the judges declared the Internet a medium of historic importance, a profoundly democratic channel for communication that should be nurtured, not stifled. Because the Net is still in its infancy, the judges said, it deserved at least as much constitutional safekeeping as books and newspapers, if not more. "As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed," wrote Judge Stewart Dalzell in an eloquently crafted opinion, "the Internet deserves the highest protection...
...Block the Internet Relay Chat channel innocently named #nancy (in reality an S&M pickup spot), as well as the famously steamy #hottub channel...