Word: pilings
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...some ways for, the people who hope to make money from the Net. The commerce-minded don't want government regulation of cyberspace any more than the A.C.L.U. does, but they realize that the only way to turn the Internet into a genuine mass medium and make a real pile of money is to convince the public that it is a clean and well-lighted place. The industry's mantra has been "Patience! Technological refinements will soon be able to protect everyone's interests." This is why the summit opened with demos of various programs that can block out unwanted...
America's allies often scold the U.S. for demonizing Saddam and needlessly personalizing the confrontation, but there is no question that he has become much more than an irritant. He has withstood all the sanctions the U.N. could pile on him, and thumbs his nose at the idea of being bombed again. His callousness seems to know no bounds. When UNICEF announced last week that a million Iraqi children have suffered from malnutrition under seven years of the embargo, Saddam acted to make their plight worse. He said he was uninterested in renewing an arrangement that allows Iraq to sell...
Scott, racing back across the time line to make the play, swatted Clark's shot out of bounds, pursued the loose ball and made the save in midair, flipping it back in toward a crowded key, then grappled his way to the bottom of the pile and some-how wrestled out a jump ball and a Harvard possession...
...Damon will play the title role in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Minghella's adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel about a charming con man driven to murder. Until recently, scripts sent to him had multiple sets of fingerprints on them; this one came straight from Tom Cruise's reject pile. "There's something so apple pie about him," says Minghella. "You know he was the best-looking kid in his school, won all the awards at track and field and dated the most popular girl...
...arrived in Washington. The references to my speeches must be in Volume II. As I envision it, L.B.J. is alone in the Oval Office during one of the darkest days of the war in Vietnam. He is looking for inspiration. Idly, he picks up a manuscript from a pile on his desk. It is titled "The Spirit of St. George." He begins to read aloud...