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...small, third-tier colleges, and they were Republican believers. One night, on the Wednesday before the voting, at the Pontchartrain Center outside New Orleans, about 700 people showed up, a big crowd. It was dinnertime, after work, and they could have been home relaxing, watching TV, helping with homework, but instead they got in the van and drove on the highway to stand and cheer for a man who they knew would give a bad speech and who in a week would be an asterisk in a boring book...
...depravity" speech for criticizing movies he hadn't seen and music he hadn't heard. Now that he was planning to do a back flip with a one-and-a-half twist from his earlier position--Hollywood isn't so depraved after all--he needed to do his homework...
...kind of people who wouldn't want you to make too much of their influence. They would say they were just doing their job, and they would be right. It tells you something about today's world that parents who make their children sit down and do their homework are considered extraordinary...
...reminded some people of a younger Janet Evans (and who beat Evans soundly in the 400 free in May 1995), began to make chirping noises that sounded a lot like bragging. "Yes, she hurt my feelings a little," Evans says now. "I used to help her with her homework at meets...
...contrast between the court's view of the Net and the impression given by the lawmakers who passed the CDA was striking. The difference, says Bruce Ennis, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, was that the judges "did their homework" in a way that Congress did not. "We made a mistake," admits Republican Congressman Rick White of Washington, who originally supported the CDA, then fought to have the indecency language removed. "The reason we got it wrong this time is that Congress does not understand the Internet...