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Perpetrator Eugene Kashpureff called it "a protest." For twenty-four hours on July 14, Internet users attempting to register a domain name (like "business.com" or "savethewhales.org") with Net registrar InterNIC found themselves not at "internic.net" but at "alternic.net," the site of Kashpureff's own company...
...particularly enjoyed Dilip Gaonkar's presentation on the problems of losing the object-domain in cultural studies--this is a mistake Harvard is prone to make, given the tendency in the social sciences to lose touch with reality and expound in one's theories," he said in an e-mail message...
Reich, an old friend, sees it differently. "She bounces back easily. She really does," he says. "Except in the one domain of trust." Nowhere does that show more than in her tortured relationship with the media. In the rare instances when she allows reporters on her plane or dines with them on the road, Hillary is charming and revealing. She is a wicked mimic, her repertoire ranging from witty stories of wandering the White House (she and Bill still haven't seen every room) to the migration patterns of screwworms. But the First Lady enforces an almost inviolable rule that...
Sometimes, though, good things come in bad diskettes. When AOL crashed for 19 hours last August, Cassell wrote a takeoff of the classic Don McLean tune, which he titled Bye, Bye Amer'ca Online. ("So bye bye to Amer'ca Online/ Drove my modem to a domain and it's working just fine./ And good old geeks are cheering users offline/ Saying this'll be the day that they die.") Like most amusing online spore, it flew around the Net, causing a number of people to E-mail Cassell their thanks. One of them became Cassell's live-in girlfriend...
...Church hierarchy deserves credit for extending the non-discrimination policies of the University to its own domain. But it deserves rebuke for not releasing the exact contents of its recommendations-the product of a task force and the basis for much future University policy-to the community. It is also unfortunate that the decision required such lengthy discussion when fellow Ivy League universities such as Brown have been allowing such ceremonies for years...