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Adding to their enthusiasm for the Internet world is the fact that they are, in essence, staying in a field they already know. Raised alongside the fledgling computer industry, they practiced math with DOS-based "Number Munchers" and presented their senior theses as web sites rather than 100-page printouts. "By virtue of going to schools that are wired, they are trained in the language of today's economy," said William Saporito, business editor of TIME. "They'll be entering an economy custom-designed for them...
...call that paranoia. But learning the way to behave with cops has become a rite of passage for black and Hispanic youngsters. Just as parents warn their sons to wear a condom during sex or urge their kids to say no to drugs, now they drill them on the dos and don'ts of dealing with police. It's just a matter of time, many tell their kids, before you are stopped, for no other reason than that you are young and black. "They know it's part of their job bringing up a black or Hispanic kid," says David...
...those of you non-seniors who might be reading this column and asking yourselves whether you should choose to write a thesis, I refer you to a helpful list of "Dos and Don'ts" written by former Crimson columnist Geoffrey C. Upton '99 on this page (Column, April 21, 1999). Read it and think about whether a thesis is the way you want to cap off your Harvard career (instead of doing independent research, taking a couple of seminars, or spending more time on your extracurricular of choice). The only advice I'll echo here is the importance of picking...
That may sound a little alarmist, on the basis of three days of DOS attacks on a handful of commercial websites. The danger is real. But as with many terrorist strikes, the fear caused by a faceless attacker has, so far, turned out to be more potent than the attack itself...