Word: penned
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WASHINGTON, D. C.: Wielding an electronic pen, President Clinton signed the controversial telecommunications bill at the Library of Congress, setting into motion a flurry of responses by activists and commercial firms. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately filed suit over a provision banning "indecent" material from electronic networks, saying the measure abridges free speech. Many popular Internet sites also turned their backgrounds black in protest. While the smut provision has captured many of the headlines, several other important measures also became law. The barrier between long-distance and local providers is now gone. AT&T announced moments after the bill...
...seems a hazardous moment to take up the editorial pen. Why, only a few short weeks ago, President Clinton, responding through his press secretary to a column by William Safire that questioned the credibility of the First Lady, expressed a desire to direct his reply straight to "the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose." Yet, at the risk of leading myself into fisticuffs with the powers-that-be, I embark here on a journey as an editorial columnist...
While the nation's capital faces the red pen of bureaucracy slashing, Harvard, too, confronts questions about the steady growth of its own administration...
...What's the pattern here, Cap?" asks Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple, the department's thickset, dandyish crime guru. Using a laser pen, Maple scrawls on an overhead map, tracing robbery patterns the way John Madden diagrams football plays. Maple circles an archipelago of red dots: muggings along Ninth Avenue. "What are you doing to take these guys...
...Guide Evaluations are not anonymous. It is true that your name never appears on the evaluation form. But your TF probably has a pretty good idea who you are. You may well be the only sophomore, female, East Asian studies concentrator who writes in green pen and dots her i's with little circles. Furthermore, your TF, having wracked his or her brain trying to read your midterm and final, will probably be pretty familiar with the idiosyncrasies of your handwriting. You don't have to go to FBI training camp to figure this stuff out, especially if you only...