Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends but treats them as fellow human beings in their own full vitality and presence...
Most of the consortium's achievements to date are, if important, arcane. (You probably don't care that HTML 3.2 is a widely respected standard, even though that fact greatly eases your travel on the Web.) But some are more high profile. pics, the Platform for Internet Content Selection, is a proposed standard that would let parents filter out offending Websites. It's a kind of V chip, except with no government involvement; you subscribe to the rating service of your choice...
...that eventually the system could go global. "This initial document didn't go down well," says Berners-Lee. But he persisted and won the indulgence of his boss, who okayed the purchase of a NeXT computer. Sitting on Berners-Lee's desk, it would become the first Web content "server," the first node in this global brain. In collaboration with colleagues, Berners-Lee developed the three technical keystones of the Web: the language for encoding documents (HTML, hypertext markup language); the system for linking documents (HTTP, hypertext transfer protocol); and the www.whatever system for addressing documents (URL, universal resource locator...
...country is bankrupt. There's not even a constitution," South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said. South African negotiators have reportedly proposed holding elections in a year's time, notes TIME's Peter Hawthorne. For the moment, though, Kinshasa residents, still exuberant over the rebels' easy victory, are content to wait. Most businesses have reopened and the streets are once again clogged with traffic, Graff reports. Underneath, though, runs a current of revenge, as the gruesome mob lynchings that have claimed more than 200 suspected looters and Mobutu soldiers continue in the capital...
...life outside a university like Harvard. Academic discourse and the search for intellectual freedom may not prevail wherever we find ourselves. The brightest stars in the pantheon of scholarship will no longer offer themselves up for our perusal twice a week at 11 a.m. We will have to content ourselves with libraries whose holdings may be less than infinite. We will no longer take for granted our membership in an enclave where truth is the highest virtue and the search for it is amply supported...