Word: kiosks
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...scene from a bad spy novel. There I was leaning against a kiosk on the Champs Elysees, furtively looking at a small black-and-white photo and trying to spot the elusive Pierre, an Internet legend who tries to stay out of the spotlight. I surveyed the tables at Fouquet's, the fashionable outdoor cafe where we had agreed to meet. No dice. How hard can it be to pick out a geek entrepreneur who's worth more than $5 billion...
...example, he said, many users keep a list of favorite Internet links--called bookmarks--on their personal machines. But they can't access these bookmarks when they move to a different machine in a computer lab or at a kiosk...
...minutes later, Tenney, Leonard's running mate, puts herself on poster-patrol, stopping to strengthen tape on wayward signs. Because publicity-hungry student groups jostle for prime kiosk real estate, she says she and Leonard will walk around later practicing "poster defense...
...from the center of campus at tiny Hillsdale College is a kiosk displaying these lines from St. Paul: LET US BEHAVE PROPERLY...NOT IN CAROUSING AND DRUNKENNESS, NOT IN SEXUAL PROMISCUITY AND SENSUALITY. The words are supposed to remind the 1,150 students of their school's rockbound commitment to morality, probity and restraint. In the 28 years that George C. Roche III was Hillsdale's voluble president, that commitment made him a hero to American conservatives--that and his decision 14 years ago not to accept any federal funding or allow his students to accept federal loans, in order...
...show, the previous weeks' many teasers took on the Stations of the Cross, Harvard-style, making anyone walking around campus an unwitting pilgrim on a very postmodern Via Dolorosa. On one poster, Jesus pours himself a Slurpee; on another, he checks his email from a Science Center kiosk. The diners at the "Ultimate Supper" mention that they've had their teasers torn down and covered up by other posters (even once or twice by posters advertising events sponsored by religious groups)....A common fate for posters, yes, but also a not-so-subtle social critique...