Word: commander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...combined reverence for the military and for education seems as ironic as the now-abstract concept of student veteran. The military seems to command little regard and less respect on campus today. Even the forces that hold legitimate grudges against the institutionalized armed forces (those fighting for the inclusion of homosexuals, for example) do not herald the military when they criticize it. Just as Harvard's ROTC program is housed away from the Yard at MIT, the military seems apart from the culture here and from the culture of our generation generally...
...sign is what's known as a "command prompt." When you type pine and press the Enter key, you're simply telling fas to run an Internet e-mail program called pine. But fas and all of Harvard's Unix systems have dozens of other programs just waiting to be called...
Once you've tracked down a person's contact information, you can use fas% to see if they're logged on. Unix has a popular command known as finger that lets you find out when and where a user last logged on. To check on Jane Radcliffe, for instance, you'd type finger jradclif at the fas%. To find out more about the user, add a space and the letters -1 after the jradclif, in this case...
...smart and ruthless kidnapper (Gary Sinise) and his dangerously fractious gang. At stake: the life of Tom's cruelly abducted son. The ransom: $2 million. Tom's wife (Rene Russo), the FBI man in charge of the case (Delroy Lindo) and everybody else involved, with conventional wisdom at their command, recommend paying up. In 7 out of 10 cases, the G-man tells Tom, this leads to the child's return. These odds, however, are obviously less than certain. And after a couple of close, sadistic encounters with the criminals, Tom becomes convinced they have no intention of returning...
...married and the father of a 10-week-old son, and he is starting to focus on topics beyond infatuation. He addresses domestic abuse on the new album's How Come, How Long, a duet with Stevie Wonder. Says Edmonds: "I never thought I had a voice that could command respect on other issues." Could it be? The man they call Babyface is outgrowing his nickname...