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...figured that they were one of those ironic things—like assless chaps—that appear in a sardonic, only-Prince-would-ever-wear-them-out-of-the-house way. When the Olsen twins started wearing ankle boots, I suspected that Mary-Kate and Ashley were nursing crack pipes, and laughed at their misfortune. When Lindsay Lohan started wearing them, however, I knew ankle boots had moved into the popular consciousness. I was frightened and consigned myself to my room so that I could silently reflect on them, cry, and make Gregorian chants. Then I purchased a pair...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ankles Are Not That Sexy, Folks | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...which we would.” says Assistant Manager for Administration-Mail Services David R. Berry. Legal issues prevent mail services from digging into student property, but what of intrepid computer-savvy students seeking to skirt the law? “There are programs out there that can crack passwords,” says Erin Nettifee, Supervisor of Residential Computing. “It can be done but it takes time, so it’s not easy.” University Technology Security Officer Scott O. Bradner says that the PIN server is almost uncrackable. Even if an ingenious...

Author: By Sharon Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mail Theft, Credit Fraud and hacker@fas | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...Talent's most effective effort so far has been with an ad accusing McCaskill of failing to crack down on abusive nursing homes as she promised to in her campaign for state auditor. "This whole thing they've done about nursing homes particularly targets women because they feel guilt over putting parents in health care," McCaskill said last week. "Those ads are particularly damaging." She has worked up a counterstriking ad that features her mother, a former politician herself, talking about her father's death in a nursing home, but at the end of last week McCaskill was still deciding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: Courting Missouri's Moms | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

Does Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have the political spine to deal with Iraq's No. 1 problem - the Shi'ite militias? There's a growing suspicion in Baghdad that he does not. Having promised, for the umpteenth time, to crack down on the sectarian death squads wreaking havoc on the Iraqi capital, the prime minister promptly turned around and castigated U.S. forces for doing precisely that. The Iraqi leader claimed that a predawn raid Wednesday on a militia stronghold by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers had been conducted without his approval, and said such attacks would not be repeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doubts Grow Over Iraq's Prime Minister | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...AUDIO: The Iraqi prime minister has shown once again that he is not willing to crack down seriously on the Shi'ite militias - which means U.S. and Iraqi soldiers are wasting their time and risking their lives

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doubts Grow Over Iraq's Prime Minister | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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