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Emergency personnel deployed to sandbag the walls and line the dikes' river sides with plastic sheeting could only help relieve part of the crisis. In shipshape Dutch style, the evacuation proceeded in a remarkably orderly manner; the notices went out by post. Even so, a bit of unforeseen chaos ensued when some highways became paralyzed with traffic. Seemingly every car and truck that could move was pressed into carrying refugees burdened with cargo ranging from pigs to pianos. Saving livestock put unusual pressures on vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north...
...heard. The FBI threatens to take legal action against Harvard computer users if it obtains evidence that they had imported obscene materials. This evidence still exists, and is available to so-called "superusers" of the network. It is the public log file, which Harvard created and is keeping. The manner in which this file was compiled, without the knowledge of the students involved, sounds too much like a Orwellian sting operation...
...this file, Steen did not take any immediate action. The mere fact that the director was not aware that the log file existed is of grave concern; but the complete absence of any consistent policy defining the terms and guarantees of students' privacy, as well as the subsequently panicked manner with which the file was closed down, point to a much more fundamental shortcoming in the way Harvard manages its critical computer systems...
...agree, a basic thread which binds us all. We will not quit. We hold certain principles to be true and we will not stop pursuing them. We will fight. We will debate. We will not stop until this nation addresses its problems in a rational and responsible manner...
...depiction of their relationship, astonishingly devoid of stereotype, is the movie's greatest strength. The women interact in a manner that is tender and uncontrived, and neither is ever seen listening to Melissa Etheridge or reading Sisterhood Is Global. Despite the women's differences, the viewer does not question their love. They offer each other a sense of peace, and the heroine seems to have, for the first time in her life, another's unflinching support...