Word: lesson
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...operations -- systems that do everything from gather intelligence to launch missiles -- had been compromised. But the event raised disturbing questions. "It shouldn't be so easy," says Lawrence Rogers, head of Princeton's Office of Computing and Information Technology. Harold Highland, editor of Computers & Security magazine, sees a useful lesson. "This attack is a wake-up call to all operators and users of computer networks," he says. In an interview with the Times, Robert Morris Sr. agreed: "It is likely to make people more careful and more attentive to vulnerabilities in the future...
When you live next door to the cops, it is best to keep your nose clean. The University of Kansas in Lawrence, only 35 miles from the headquarters of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Mission, Kans., last week painfully learned that lesson. The N.C.A.A. put the Kansas basketball program, which produced last year's national champions, on probation for three years and withdrew one of its 13 athletic scholarships. The reason: Kansas improperly spent some $1,200 to recruit an athlete who ended up not playing for the Jayhawks anyway. The most hurtful part of the N.C.A.A. action...
...wives and children of elected officials are fighting the pressure to be - perfect and learning a tough lesson: how to strike a balance between private needs and public expectations...
Brown may have learned his lesson about NCAA investigations, but does he realize that every time a college basketball program tampers with NCAA regulations, no matter how stringent they may be, it's a big deal...
...those like me who doubted the value of style in politics, the 1988 presidential campaign, in which both Vice President George Bush and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis have demonstrated an absolute lack of personality, has taught a useful lesson. "People" politics does, and should, matter...