Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...written about AOL hackers and AOHell, a program that helps delinquents steal members' passwords. And he's chronicled the AOL censorship policy that led to the banning of more than 100 words from chat-room names, from breasts to boy. On AOL, says Cassell, "even the word forbidden is forbidden." His first-ever act of protest was to write a program that took his collection of members' anti-AOL slogans ("Friends Don't Let Friends Join AOL") and made them scroll by to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance. Later, he put up a popular Website, called AOL Watch www.aolwatch.com...
This case is only part of a national trend. Advocates of affirmative action have seen setbacks across the country as institutions in California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi have been forbidden from considering race as a factor in hiring and admissions...
This case is only part of a national trend. Advocates of affirmative action have seen setbacks across the country as institutions in California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi have been forbidden from considering race as a factor in hiring and admissions...
...breathe easy. Judge Herve Stephan has placed all seven of the photographers arrested at the scene of Princess Diana's car crash under investigation for possible charges of involuntary homicide and failing to come to the aid of accident victims. Two were released on $16,000 bail, and are forbidden to snap pictures for profit until the judge decides whether the case warrants a trial...
Traditionally, U.S. military forces have been forbidden to take part in domestic law enforcement, the result of a post-Civil War law, the Posse Comitatus Act. But in the 1980s, in response to a growing drug problem on the border, the law was loosened to allow military units to help the U.S. Border Patrol catch drug smugglers. A Department of Defense entity called Joint Task Force Six, based in El Paso, Texas, has since 1989 coordinated 3,300 missions on the border; 746 of them involved listening or observation posts like the one Banuelos and three other Marines established several...