Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though Charles Keating spent 4 1/2 years in prison for his starring role in the $3.4 billion collapse of Lincoln Savings & Loan, the poster boy for the 1980s S&L scandals that cost taxpayers nearly $500 billion was still able to thumb his nose at prosecutors last week...
...aspire to be the poster child of all that's possible on the Internet," Bejan says, noting that while 30 million people now have access to the Web, "we want to bring the next 10 million online." For the next six hours, I get a glimpse of how. Hundreds of people are involved in creating MSN's shows, from the typographers who choose the fonts to the musicians--"the MSN orchestra!" someone jokes--who write the theme songs. Teams of market researchers measure what's working and what's not. Shows that don't make the cut will be replaced...
...friend of mine recently told me a humorous, if sorry, anecdote. She was walking through the Science Center gates on her way to class and, looking at the alluring poster-covered brick, decided to hang up a poster she had in her bag. She pulled out the poster and some tape and, probably whistling some little ditty innocently to herself, began to hang up the green construction paper--cut a piece of tape, smooth out the corners of the paper--until, BAM! Nailed by Harvard University Police officers--and fined twenty five dollars...
...offense: hanging up a poster on a wall not sanctioned for postering. The fact that there were so many other posters hung up that it was nearly impossible to see any of the original wall was irrelevant. It is Harvard-illegal to hang anything anywhere but the Yard kiosks, the Science Center tack-boards and the House bulletin boards, and those who disregard this law must be prosecuted. The lesson my friend, the offender, gleaned from the whole experience was simple: look carefully before hanging up posters--the Harvard police are on patrol...
...after three in the morning. Despite the recent increase, there are still not enough emergency blue phones. And I never see a police officer around at night when I am walking home alone from a friend's room or the library. (Maybe I should try hanging up a poster on a lamp post...