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Capers said that as word of Collins' request began to filter through the locker room, it quickly became apparent the quarterback no longer would have the backing of his teammates, many of whom felt betrayed...
Another terrific thing that Outlook gave us: a better bozo filter. Filters, as you probably know, allow us to clump together e-mail when it arrives. I have filters that separate into different folders mail to TIME magazine, TIME DAILY and Lunch-L, a mailing list I set up for the six friends I used to dine with every day when I was a newspaper reporter. Outlook went even further by adding a simple bozo filter, which allows me to click on any message, select "Junk Mail" from a drop-down menu, and banish to the slag heap for eternity...
These people generally don't have much to say, but that isn't the point. The hundreds of people who await each dignitary's arrival don't come for the speeches, but to stand in these people's presence, to see what they look like without the filter of a camera's lens, to be able to say that they saw them. But the real reason these figures draw such crowds is because they are people to whom we feel a need to react. They represent something important to us, whether something we admire or something we scorn. For that...
Early May: President Wilson establishes an e-mail address (terrain@radcliffe.edu) to filter alumnae opinion about Radcliffe's potential "intellectual terrain...
...recommendation is save your money. Use one of the free family-friendly search sites that are popping up all over the Web. Last week the popular search engine Lycos unveiled SafetyNet, an easy-to-use tool. Simply go to lycos.com click on SafetyNet, select a password and activate the filter. Then whenever you or anyone on your computer searches the Web from lycos.com content will be filtered. Be warned though; there are still plenty of bugs: a search of the word sex returned no results. (Sex education, however, was chock-full of advice that most parents would probably tolerate.) Then...