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...recent years, alternative media--in the form of television, radio and the Internet--have rapidly encroached upon a domain traditionally occupied by print journalism...
...incentive other than embarrassment to change their ways, complain that they face over-powering constraints on what they are capable of offering so many undergraduates, given the department's limited resources. They lament that they cannot ensure that upperclass students have access to residential advisors because this is the domain of the individual Houses. In response, the senior tutors within these individual Houses point out that it is the department's responsibility to advise its own students regardless of whether the House is able to hire a resident tutor in every large field...
...computer consultant living in Atlanta, Gaskins, 21, paid $50 for the domain name dicaprio.com in 1996 after renting What's Eating Gilbert Grape on video and becoming a die-hard fan. The home page was just a hobby, a way to learn how to build a website. Then, on the day Titanic came out, the $20,000 computer that served www.dicaprio.com sank like the great ship itself. "I had to reboot it every half hour," Gaskins recalls. Finally he relocated to more heavy-duty digs donated by a for-profit site that sells Leo-related merchandise...
...kids hoping for contact with the screen idol. (Note to the Leo-struck: Gaskins has never communicated with the star or his handlers.) I would find all this very draining, but Gaskins does it for free. Is he a sucker? "I had someone appraise my site," he says. "The domain name itself is worth more than $75,000." Hmmm, maybe...
...Burton, the evil of opening this particular Pandora's Box won't be ended by letting all the contents out. Hubbell and his attorney are upset that every minute of his private conversations -- genuinely personal moments included -- are about to enter the public domain. The ranking Democrat on Burton's committee, Henry Waxman, called for an inquiry into why his chairman "unilaterally subpoenaed these tapes, unilaterally released them and apparently unilaterally altered the content." Moral: Leaking snippets of tape can create a tangled web, as the Clintons already know...