Word: owen
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Anonymity on the Internet, and in particular gender anonymity on the Internet, has often been framed in a rather ugly light, marred as it is by media portrayals such as in the 2004 movie “Closer,” in which Clive Owen has a steamy romantic online rendezvous (can an online rendezvous really be steamy?) with someone he believes to be a woman, only to find out that it’s actually Jude Law. But this is anonymity nonetheless, and it is a powerful force in shaping who’s who on the net: when...
...thinking that what has happened in Iraq has been a failure. Iraq is far from a lost cause, as was proved when Iraqis in all walks of life braved the threats of insurgents and headed to the polls to take part in their first real free election. Owen T. Mathews Suffield, Connecticut...
...curious words of Leung's character, are desperate to get their own hands on the goods. (Maybe they've invested heavily in the euro.) Leung nabs them, but on his way to claim his reward from a grateful U.S. government, he's waylaid and re-robbed by rival thief Owen Lee (Richie Jen). That sets off a cat-and-cat game between Leung and Jen in Seoul, with pillow-lipped, helium-voiced JJ (Shu Qi) as a third thief who fetchingly gets in everyone's way. As the story unfolds, the plot ties itself into some complicated knots, despite...
...Faculty outcry against Knowles, Skocpol, and Verba’s plan leaves the Faculty, at least for now, without three of its most respected leaders. The responsibility for fixing this leadership vacuum falls squarely on Kirby. As Conant University Professor Stephen Owen pointed out at the meeting, “it is the Dean who leads his or her Faculty.” None of Harvard’s other eight Faculties is having such drastic problems, which points to a lack of leadership on Kirby’s part. Kirby needs to step up and be a more effective...
...Perhaps such leadership may direct us more efficiently...but even so, is it worth the loss of the self-governing community whose members” feel a sense of ownership in the university, Owen asked...