Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happening much faster than electrification did a century ago and is expected to have consequences at least as profound. What would happen if all the information stored on the world's computers were accessible via the Internet to anyone? Who would own it? Who would control it? Who would protect it from abuse...
Thernstrom, a former English department faculty member and Adams House non-resident tutor, alleges that the University also attempted to whitewash the tragedy, and "to protect and promote its distinguished reputation at the cost of its own student body," according to an advance copy of the book obtained by The Crimson this week...
Seeking to protect fellow citizens from depravities ranging from TV violence to rap lyrics, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Howard Stern, some Americans have always had a hard time restraining themselves from trying to circumvent the First Amendment. And the World Wide Web, with its infinite plenitude of pro-Satan home pages and SEXY NUDE BABES! sites, has more, um, free speech in need of protection than any medium in history. As lurid tales of online obscenity seep into America's consciousness, a variety of Internet sentinels have volunteered their services...
...sans filter will have to ask the librarian to call off the watchdogs; children under 17 will be able to do so only if accompanied by an adult. "The issue is whether pornography will get into the library," says board president John Nicholas. "Our task is to protect our children...
...from her newfound wealth, she readily agrees to show me where she writes her first drafts, even though it's in bed. And anticipating my next line of questioning, she offers that indeed money does make some things easier and is a great blessing but that money "doesn't protect you from life's sufferings. Tears are the same whether they fall on silk damask or cotton." She has current proof of that. She and her husband, a government lawyer and the mayor of Takoma Park, Md., have just separated. With her 14-year-old daughter upstairs and the pain...