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There was also the memorable, if laughable, reference to "family values"--an appeal to tone down Hollywood and an admonition against teen pregnancies. I could just imagine a bewildered Dan Quayle watching as the same man who targeted the Republican cry for "family values" as his principle object of ridicule in the 1992 campaign now spouted it as if he had coined the phrase...
Some of those students also object to the elimination of Bovet's position, saying the move signals a shift away from Radcliffe's original undergraduate focus...
City Council members object to the notion that Cambridge is a city divided, emphasizing that the lack of a mayor is not cause for crisis...
...first ones awake on Sunday morning were local parents with their down bundled children and their sweatered terriers. These early risers walked into the Quad and stopped, tilting their heads like confused pigeons. They approached the Easter Island god in deference and squinted, beholding the gleaming object. Children reached out to touch the indifferent god; the inspiration of a millenium-old design spoke to them here, brought from halfway across the world...
...rather Java, went through its many revisions, some principles didn't change. It was to be a thoroughly modern programming language, embodying all the major advances in computer theory of the past quarter-century. It had to be "object-oriented," forcing programmers to write in small, self-contained units that could be slotted into one another like Lego blocks. It had to be robust, which is to say crash-proof, doing without many standard programming tools that give developers flexibility but can lead to unpredictable results. Finally, it had to be secure, even in the hostile hacker- and virus-filled...