Word: kicking
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...with floods of new arrivals have come new issues and conflicts. Part of the problem is technical. To withstand a nuclear blast and keep on ticking, the Net was built without a central command authority. That means that nobody owns it, nobody runs it, nobody has the power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed," says Clifford Stoll, a Berkeley astronomer famous on the Internet for having trapped a German spy who was trying...
...like Louis Menand and Steven Pinker, expanding study abroad, defending affirmative action, making ours a “Green Campus”—all of that is irrelevant to the one-third of professors (of one out of Harvard’s nine faculties) that voted to kick the bastard when he’s down...
Freshman Congressman John Kennedy, recovering from his first onset of Addison's disease, learned that his sister Kathleen--the third of the golden trio of Joe Jr., Jack and "Kick"--had been killed in a plane crash while flying with her married lover for a holiday on the Riviera. Joe Jr. had died toward the end of the war in another plane, which blew up over the English Channel. Jack fell into a period of morbidity. The Kennedy family concealed the truth about Kathleen's aristocratic lover. Kennedy ever after concealed the truth about his Addison's disease; if voters...
...were screening Boe’s vision. With a rapid flick of the stick, Piper sent a blazing slapshot at the lower corner of the net. Boe saw it at the last minute and quickly flipped out her left leg to cover the entire side of the goal and kick the shot aside...
...Crimson and Saints kick off their best-of-three ECAC quarterfinal series at Bright Hockey Center tonight...