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...Underground BBSes (bulletin board systems), which were most times run by people out of their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise. Information was not withheld for selfish reasons, but disseminated among everybody in order to spread computer intelligence. His prose makes a family concept continually come to mind throughout the middle...
...Advice for Cornell" (Editorial, Oct. 28), The Crimson Staff, reflecting on the state of Harvard's own house system, states that "Randomization...has eroded this individual character [of each of the Houses]." You advise the Cornell administration not to "expect the close-knit comunities of earlier this century to develop...
What can Cornell learn from the state of our house system? Let students have some choice in their housing and allow them to define the character of their residential setting. But don't expect the close-knit communities of earlier this century to develop...
Clinton's success may stem from her persistence. Her persistence may stem from the values she learned growing up in a close-knit community of parents, teachers and neighbors who worked together to raise the community's children...
...cigar and a Tab during a recent interview, may be the right guy with the right idea at the right time. A graduate of Yale law school, he founded the irreverent monthly American Lawyer at age 28 and managed almost from the start to throw a scare into the close-knit legal profession--as well as into his own staff. (A former reporter recalls Brill emerging from his office roaring, "I'm gonna make somebody cry!") Later he created Court TV, which earned high marks for its coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial and other high-profile cases...