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...actions regarding the Y2K crisis can hardly be seen as early or admirable. The U.S. did not fully address or acknowledge the problem until the latter part of the '90s--a good 20 years after the issue was first brought to light. As early as 1971, our nation's own official committee on data protocols was calling for a four-digit date standard in computers, rather than the two-digit standard that was commonplace at the time. To have tackled the problem then would have killed any Y2K worries forever...
...Opponents of the law come from such normally at-odds factions as the Christian right and gay rights groups, both of whom have filed court briefs against the Washington law. The former claim the law interferes with the notion of family, while the latter fear it would take autonomy away from gay couples with children. The law's supporters include the AARP, which argues that older people should not be prevented from having a role in their grandchildren's lives. How the Justices will rule is anyone's guess, but the current Supreme Court generally champions states' rights - most recently...
This semester, Burton represented the Hillel Drama Club, the Latter-Day Saints Student Association, the Tennis Club, the Table Tennis Club, the Equestrian Club, MINHUET, the Korean Association, HUSR, Pugwash, and the Women's Ultimate Frisbee club...
...hammered together three desks, at a cost of $60 each. (That frugality continues at Amazon to this day; every employee sits behind a door desk.) MacKenzie agreed to work with the crew a few days a week, helping out with accounting and interviewing--the latter chore often conducted, cheekily, in a nearby Barnes & Noble...
...people don't ask for much--enough food, adequate shelter and a mildly entertaining Oscar-night show that gets us to bed before sunrise. Hollywood, in all its benevolence, is hard at work on granting us the latter. The producers of next year's Academy Awards show, husband-and-wife team Lili and Richard Zanuck, made a public plea this month to intermittent emcee BILLY CRYSTAL, who last year ceded the hosting duties to Whoopi Goldberg. "It's the one thing people agree on--they all want Billy," said Lili (kindly refraining from adding, "just not in any more...