Word: mattered
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...Crimson editorial correctly points out that both sides in the grape debate used dated information or catchy slogans. The Crimson editors are wrong, however, in omitting themselves from the parties which contributed to the unfortunate state of the debate. By arguing that this was a simple matter of human rights, the editors oversimplified a complex political issue. Students were either for human rights and therefore on the side of good, or in service to their palate and therefore servants of evil. A newspaper should serve to enlighten its readers, not to tell them what to think...
Today, thanks to the Internet, youngsters with computers are but the proverbial two clicks away from pictures of bare-naked ladies--and worse. This has, not surprisingly, become a matter of national concern, one that Congress tried to deal with by passing the ham-handed Communications Decency Act in 1996. But last June the Supreme Court ruled that the CDA violated adults' First Amendment rights, leaving the whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced...
...place was created in an explosion of invention that began around 1890 and was largely finished by 1910. Cities all over the world were transformed as automobiles and electric lights replaced horse-drawn carriages and gas lamps. Old technologies that had prevailed for centuries became obsolete in a matter of years, and the 20th century emerged as the age of fossil fuels...
...lucky to get off with probation." No hard feelings, says Brown. "I didn't have no permit for the gun." More important, says Brown, "you got to say that Blondie and them kept a lot of the worst of the stuff around here down, no matter how they went about...
From the time Colbert was terrorized in February 1991, it took prosecutors four years just to indict Blondie & Co. for their illegal activities, and it was more than another year before they were sentenced to prison on April 15, 1996. "No matter the substance of complaints against cops," says McGuire, "if it's only the victim's word against the cop's, it's a hard road to travel, and it always takes too much time." For the city and federal prosecutors considering Colbert's complaint, getting Ryan to "rat out" proved easy. "If Ryan had held fast, they couldn...