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...This flaw in Harvard's attack was most apparent in the closing minutes of the game as it was unable to capitalize on a two-man advantage after Queens had broken...
Artists, like sleepwalkers, sometimes take the right turn for unconscious reasons, and so it was with Copley. The "liny" style of his "little way in Boston" turned out, in the end, not to be a provincial flaw. Rather, it proved the very basis of his best achievement as a painter. It produced the hard, unfussed, straightforward realism of his portraits, which make up a unique record of the men and women who formed America from the top in the late 18th century...
When David Campbell and others at the Center for Creative Leadership studied "derailed executives," the rising stars who flamed out, the researchers found that these executives failed most often because of "an interpersonal flaw" rather than a technical inability. Interviews with top executives in the U.S. and Europe turned up nine so-called fatal flaws, many of them classic emotional failings, such as "poor working relations," being "authoritarian" or "too ambitious" and having "conflict with upper management...
...less than 60 seconds, defeat the encryption scheme used by Netscape's Navigator software to conceal information such as credit card numbers in transactions over the Internet. (Rumor has it that the authors of the cracking program did their handiwork after watching the movie Hackers.) The security flaw stems from Netscape's use of a 30-digit binary "key" to decrypt such messages; the company has since released a new version using a 300-digit key which is significantly harder to defeat...
TIME's Joshua Quittner says a serious security flaw found in Netscape, the most popular World Wide Web browser, probably won't cast a pall over emerging electronic commerce. Two University of California at Berkeley graduate students have found that a knowledgeable computer user could crack the system in less then a minute, potentially giving users access to information such as credit card or bank account numbers. Netscape Communications plans to rush out a secure version of the software next week. "This is an interesting academic exercise, but online transactions are still a relatively minor part of the Internet," Quittner...