Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of respect, a Harvard diploma can only do so much in coaxing the right people to crack the right doors ajar. The whole game of it all reminds me of those large, long hallways from the dream sequences of a movie, labyrinthine but somehow also very simple at the same time. There are lots of opened doors, but the views inside are blurry, and the view back out may be non-existent. Just as we may find it hard to remember our lives before Harvard, after we enter the working world it may be hard to recall a time...
...security," he says. "Relying on secrecy is always a mistake... If they went to me as a consultant I'd say, 'Don't be an idiot. Let's make this public.'" In other words, manufacturers should stick to publicly vetted codes that a bunch of bored geeks can't crack in their spare time...
...whose drama coach had heard about the project. In fact, they were even able to get Jonathan Katz from Comedy Central's Dr. Katz to do a voice-over cameo. Marx and Novak can only blame themselves for the glimpses of unprofessionalism in the cast. The actors would invariably "crack-up during the first few takes, especially during the killing part," says Marx. The two writers concede that the script may simply have been too funny...
Given all that, the real wonder may be that schoolboy massacres are still an aberration. But like crime generally, juvenile violence involving guns has actually been in decline since 1994. A downturn in the ultraviolent crack trade is one reason. Just two weeks ago, the National Center for Education Statistics, in a survey requested by President Clinton, found the incidence of serious crime in schools to be flat. In the past year, only 10% reported a rape, robbery or fight involving a weapon. But again, like crime generally, violent juvenile crime has stabilized at a rate that would have seemed...
...women for children." The most basic parental bond is maternal. Equal parenting is great--it has forced men to get off their duffs--but women, from breast to cradle to cuddle, can nurture in ways that men cannot. And thus, because we value children--who would deny them first crack at the lifeboats?--women should go second. The children need them...