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Certainly, her mythic place in American history would seem to make her an unlikely anti-abortion crusader. At the same time, she was never a poster child for the abortion movement. In fact, her participation in the case was not brought on by her commitment to social change, but more buy the fact that she happened to be in the right place at the right time...
Jacoby opened his talk by displaying the poster the IOP used to advertise the event, which had a gaffe of its own--it left the letter e off the word gaffe. He joked that there was no better way to advertise the talk "than the way this showed up on the poster...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers will provide you with "poster gum," which is basically useless. Find other ways to hang pictures, or get used to minimalism of blank walls. Besides, you can rent original pictures from the Fogg collection cheap-the only fee is to cover the cost of insurance...
...trust is of the essence in any communications regime," says Stewart Brand, co-founder of the Sausalito, California-based Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, one of the first and best-known online gathering places. Having seen what havoc anonymity can create, the well's creators decided to make every poster accountable for his or her messages. Years later, some well users asked that a portion of the system be set aside for anonymous discussions, arguing that it would allow people to speak more freely about volatile topics. "It was shut down within a week by acclamation," says Brand. "The pathology...
During her 23-year marriage, Margaret Randolph could have qualified as a poster woman for spousal abuse. Her husband Gary Randolph, a sometime dock worker, would get drunk and then "bring out his guns," Margaret says. He would shoot up the house as their three children, now ages 22, 15 and 13, dived for cover under the beds. According to Margaret, one night Gary shot her in the arm with a pistol. Afraid to report the incident to the police, she packed up the children a few months later and moved from their St. Louis home to Chatsworth, Georgia...