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...that, come lunchtime, in-and-out traffic could power enough electric sprayers to paint over Quincy dining hall’s ugly mural in under a passing period’s worth of time. After that, Quincy should donate the motor to be installed in that Memorial Hall elevator.Five: Protect our privacy. The stalls in the men’s bathroom in the basement of the Science Center are to stall goers what loincloths are to their owners’ unmentionables. Any privacy is purely coincidental. The average gap between stall fixtures seems to be around four inches, enough...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Christmas Wishlist 2005 | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...happy that their firm’s name has seeped into the common lexicon (though the company’s lawyers have been known to send out nasty letters to those who use the word publicly without an obvious reference to the search software giant, in order to protect their trademark). Occasionally it happens because the noun already had a verb embedded in it: we’ve mailed letters for long enough that e-mail was just asking for it, and what else would you call the act of instant messaging someone other than, well, instant messaging them...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: e-Verb-erating | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...staff sent out an e-mail on Nov. 30 over multiple open lists warning students of the dangers of facebook.com and how to best protect themselves...

Author: By Cyrus M. Mossavar-rahmani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Facebook Profiles May be Monitored | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...most recently at a Nov. 15 protest in Seoul where over 100 were injured. So when Hong Kong announced that 9,000 police officers would be on duty during the Dec. 13-18 World Trade Organization (WTO) talks, it's safe to say that they weren't posted to protect the city from the Philippines Domestic Helpers General Union. Some 2,000 South Koreans were scheduled to make the trip, and in the weeks leading up to the meetings Hong Kong newspapers pumped up the threat, until the coming invasion seemed only slightly less dangerous than the Mongol hordes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scenes from a Protest | 12/18/2005 | See Source »

...imagine is what Eric Van Looy, a gifted Belgian director does with it in his low key, persuasively realistic thriller. His killer, whose moral sense is completely intact, no matter what's going wrong with his less-than-total recall, learns that his wet work is designed to protect a ring of child vicious child abusers, whose members include highly placed government figures. He begins leaving enigmatic clues about the real criminals with a harassed detective and this unbalanced man ends up restoring something like balance to a complex and elegantly realized corner of the world-how many Belgian movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Richard Schickel's Best Movie Picks | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

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