Word: charney
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Peil as Gertrude and Jordan Charney as King Claudius are both unmemorable. Even in the pivotal scene where Hamlet confronts his mother in her bedroom, Peil's performance shows far too much reserve to evoke passion. Charney's performance suffers in the same way, especially as he contemplates his murder of Hamlet's father. His charm and gentility greatly mar his performance, as they subvert the evil that he attempts to convey...
...routed through the hippocampus, a different, gut-level sort of memory can be involuntarily revived with terrible clarity by abnormal activity in the amygdala. "It's been an eye opener to me that individuals we study who were traumatized 25 years ago still show abnormal brain function," says Dennis Charney, head of psychiatry at the VA hospital in West Haven, Connecticut. "Severe stress can change the way your brain functions biologically...
...chose to indict him on a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. That was not a particularly good fit either, but government officials felt they had to charge him with something. ``If the government did not respond when someone gave away a million dollars in software,'' says Scott Charney, who heads the U.S. Justice Department's computer-crimes unit, ``we'd essentially be saying that you can give away software as much as you want.'' Protecting the rights -- in fact the livelihood -- of commercial software makers is only one of many challenges facing authorities as they try to police...
...really on this computer terminal, or is it being accessed from a hard disk in another state? In addition, searching a computer bulletin-board system with two gigabytes of data on it may require agents to spend weeks scanning through irrelevant material to find what they want. Last year Charney co-authored a set of federal guidelines for searching and seizing computers, designed to provide answers to some of these questions...
...digital space'' where individuals and societies can explore freedom of expression and self-definition. That is why the fine line between legitimate deterrence and constitutionally protected speech is coming under increased scrutiny. ``If you `walk the beat' on the Internet too vigorously,'' says the Justice Department's Charney, ``you have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights.'' Rather than patrol the Net themselves, cybercops increasingly urge citizens to contact the FBI or the Secret Service if they learn about crimes or threats...