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Perhaps the most common knock on the Undergraduate Council is that it is out of touch with the student body...
This is no knock on our overseas cousins. Indeed, the people who should hate this type of Anglophile the most are the British. For with some exceptions (Absolutely Fabulous, The Young Ones), the original British shows that Americans have most dearly embraced have reinforced a safe, neutered image of Britons, all Anglo veneer, no Saxon bile. (Let's not count the decades-old Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, which, however brilliant, are as representative of today's Britain as a suet pudding...
Which is to say, Sir John was not Laurence Olivier. Gielgud lacked his rival's physicality and physique. The Gielgud visage was squinty, Magoo-like, and he didn't care to wear tights because of his knock-knees. As a stage presence, Olivier was all sexy, pyrotechnical danger, a swashbuckler and a rogue, a bounding bounder. Gielgud was more remote, passionate mainly in melancholy. If theater is drama, then Olivier is your man of the century. If it is poetry, the mining of meaning from sound, then Gielgud fits another phrase Tynan applied to him: "Not so much an actor...
...medium may be new, but human nature hasn't changed: whatever firewalls and antidotes the virus hunters come up with, virus writers will always find a way around them. As veteran hacker Emmanuel Goldstein put it, "If your system can be knocked out, assume it will be." You journalists need to read a little more carefully. He said if it "can" be knocked out. It is feasible to engineer systems that are exceedingly difficult to knock out without incurring significant costs. The Love Bug exploits a system that was designed to encourage promiscuous behavior. Windows is a code-running slut...
...give trigger locks away 5. __ Kabibble 8. According to its president, it won't increase output in July 12. Prefix with lock or knock 13. Gallery-funding org. 14. Mission: Impossible theme-composer Schifrin 15. Yemeni port 16. Former colleague of Mike and Morley 17. Home for an SS-18 18. Dance partner? 19. He had his 15 minutes of fame in '95 20. "Love Bug" creator de Guzman, who claimed it was released "by accident" 21. They've offered to begin disarming 23. Ludwig __ Drake 25. Run out of Time? 28. Two shakes 29. The House has extended...