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That The Crimson chose to focus upon a certain group and condemn its behaviors as deviant seems to us to be rather arbitrary and, quite frankly, elitist. Students at Harvard choose to organize themselves in a myriad of different ways' The Crimson disputes few of them. Why single out The Resistance for Criticism...
...always wanted to be on time. The single most amazing achievement of my life is my high school tardy record of less than one percent--but that was motivated by a desire to avoid the consequences (myriad and nasty). We organizationally challenged people are used to sitting on the floor in lecture halls and apologizing for being late. When I was little, I used to run everywhere because I had enough excess energy to power New York for a week. Now I run everywhere because I'm chronically behind schedule. Somehow, everything seems to take longer than expected--showers, papers...
...frivolous entertainment: a bit of comedy here, a bit of romance there, all mediated by the Southern accents and smooth dialogue of Roberts' script. The production is by no means flawless, and the plot smacks of TV sitcoms, but both are solid enough to carry the audience through the myriad gags and delectable characters that make up the meat and fluffy potatoes of the show...
Sparks' skillful weaving of myriad strands-Mandela's secret sessions with the committee, the clandestine talks in England between the African National Congress and the government, the back-channel communications between Mandela and the a.n.c. in exile, the trepidation of Botha and the apparent transformation of his successor, De Klerk-possesses the drama and intrigue of a diplomatic whodunit. Sparks uncovers fresh details about Mandela's secret outings around Cape Town with his jailers (one of whom covertly brought the grandfatherly prisoner home to meet his two small children), the vital role of Mandela's courtly lawyer, George Bizos...
...same time, the judge warned that interpreting the criminal law too broadly ``would serve to criminalize the conduct of not only persons like LaMacchia, but also the myriad of home computer users who succumb to the temptation to copy even a single software program for private use.'' That, he said, was not something ``that even the software industry would consider desirable...