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Harvard sailed 10 races in Flying Juniors, and like the co-ed squad, the women had to cope with light and shifty winds...
...purely technical reasons, it is impossible to censor the Internet at present. "It's designed to work around censorship and blockage," explains Stoll. "If you try to cut something, it self-repairs." But some antipornography activists have found a clever way to cope with that. From time to time, they will appear in newsgroups devoted to X-rated picture files and start posting messages with titles like "YOU WILL ALL BURN IN HELL!" These typically provoke flurries of angry responses -- until it dawns on the pornography lovers that by filling the message board with their rejoinders, they are pushing...
...lesser mortal would have shrunk from the enormity of trying to cope with all of that at the same time, but not Veronica Mars. She rebounded from her travails with a toughened yet witty edge, all the while maintaining compassion and zealousness for the truth. She sometimes takes on cases pro bono and does what it takes to accomplish her goals. She is charmingly effervescent and incisively brilliant...
...environment like this, even the most determined journalists can be ineluctably drawn into the compromising circles of provincial patronage. Despite the popular perception of journalists as self-serving, streetwise operators, the truth is that many young, idealistic Filipinos entering the profession are simply too ingenuous to cope with the bruising feuds and bloody grudges that pass for local politics in the developing world. It's easy to make enemies in the rural Philippines. Given the wide availability of handguns and hit men, exacting revenge is also a trifle. And assassinating an irksome reporter strikes some media targets as a much...
...teacher, how do you cope with such conflicts in your own classroom...