Word: decentered
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...high school kids nearly tripled from 2001 to 2003, the last year for which statistics are available. Last week a judge ordered 10 teenagers charged with repeatedly gang-raping a 14-year-old girl in the southern city of Miryang to stand trial in juvenile court. Most iljin are decent kids in need of guidance, Jong insists, but "10,000 of them are very dangerous...
...Desmond Cussen (Ian Holm), is Ruth's pal and protector, the one dour celibate in this tatty Sodom. Des is used to being used by Ruth; it is his way of feeling needed. He has the patience for her; David has the hots. Together, these qualities might make a decent lover. Opposed, they tear Ruth apart...
Both of these destructive miniprograms occupy only a few hundred bytes of memory and are therefore virtually invisible among the millions of lines of code contained in a large computer. Worse still, they are ominously easy to create. Says Security Consultant Ian Murphy, 28: "Any decent programmer can write a virus in six hours. A novice can write one in 20 hours with assistance and 30 hours without assistance." The perpetrators are frequently disaffected engineers and computer technicians. Says Security Consultant Sanford Sherizen of Natick, Mass.: "A lot of people grew up in data processing, spent years holding computers together...
...filmmakers, the disintegration of a marriage is not at all an occasion for faultfinding or for a highly compressed dramatic crisis. Everyone in Twice in a Lifetime is decent. Harry only reluctantly concedes the validity of his need for emotional renewal, and he never entirely forgives himself the pain he causes. He is, in fact, as surprised as anyone when, while celebrating his 50th birthday with his fellow mill hands, he falls passionately in love with a barmaid (Ann-Margret). Stunned, Kate is tempted toward but fights off a state of permanent victimization. Helping her to remobilize are a married...
Despite serving well and playing decent defense, Harvard’s offensive woes prevented it from making any kind of run at St. Francis...