Word: guardian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...built on water. Prowling the sea like Poseidon's angels are the Smokers, bad guys led by the one-eyed Deacon (Dennis Hopper). The Smokers are looking for Enola (Tina Majorino), a 10-year-old with a map tattoo that may point the way to dry land. With her guardian Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the girl hitches a ride on the trimaran of an outsider--part man, part fish--known as the Mariner (Costner). If anyone in this scurvy world can help them, he can. Hey, he can do anything. As we see in the opening scene, he knows...
...position to be a censor--that responsibility should be at the parents' level, or whoever controls the terminal," says Gordon Ross, chief executive officer of Canada's Vancouver-based Net Nanny, a program that allows a parent or guardian to monitor everything passing through the computer. Net Nanny users, for example, can enter such phrases as "What's your name?" and "What's your phone number?" in a phrase book. When the software detects one of the targeted phrases printing across the terminal--say, in a chat room of a commercial online service--Net Nanny harrumphs and pulls the plug...
...Blown It, Hugh," admonished the Sun. "Oh Hugh, how could you?" moaned The Guardian. "Grant had the world at his feet, but was caught with his trousers down," said the Daily Mail.An embarrassed Hugh Grant, caught with a prostitute in Hollywood Wednesday, flew home to London to face the music -- as well as his eight-year live-in girlfriend, Estee Lauder model Elizabeth Hurley. Before departing, the British actor left this now-famous explanation: "Last night I did something completely insane. I have hurt people I love and embarrassed people I work with. For both things I am more sorry...
...companion might be expecting a conservative tirade from the former president of the Harvard Republican Club and a guardian of Peninsula, a conservative campus magazine. Instead, Campbell, who spent three years rowing crew, jokes about his growing waistline. The NRA cap? He likes to shock Harvard liberals with the cap and by "whistling `Dixie' in the Yard." And when he meets someone open-minded, the cap can prompt a conversation that bridges ideological divides...
...award read, "President of the Republic of Ireland, distinguished European Law expert, passionate defender of human rights, guardian of the welfare of the people, and a symbol of reconciliation and hope for all humankind, you exemplify how a lawyer may serve the public as an instrument of change to make men and women free." --Valerie J. MacMillan...