Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tabs on their friends. Some people have what the computer literate refer to as a "stalk script" to let them know when their friends are logged on. That's fine, but the choice to make that information public should be the student's and not the University's. To protect the computer illiterate (an endangered, Luddite few), incoming first-year accounts should all be set inaccessible unless explicitly changed by the user...
...checks. Please e-mail Harvard Computer Security (security@fas.harvard.edu) and ask them why they haven't followed the lead of many other campuses including Cornell and Brown (which display only a person's address, telephone number and ".plan" file when you finger them) in disabling or altering UNIX commands to protect the privacy of Harvard students. Even if the expectation of privacy in the real world is diminishing every day, let us take a small stand for the antiquated notion that nobody should be able to figure out where you are and when...
...show business. Whom can we blame for this but the evil, devious, anti-religious liberals? Though we cannot see, hear or smell them, we know that they must be there--in our government, in our schools and even in our homes. Take the advice of your local conservative accuser: protect yourselves, because they're everywhere...
...hope Clinton hears this advertisement, and I hope it shocks him into feeling a long-overdue sense of shame for disgracing himself and the country he swore to protect. When the president's actions, regardless of whether they were illegal, have reduced him and one of the nation's anthems of dignity to hawking for bars of doubtful repute overseas, it is time for the American people to send him packing without so much as a good...
...economic crisis or the new era of European unification marked by the debut of the euro. In the face of such disarray, many Europeans are beginning to turn away from the country they once respected as a defender of democratic ideals and protector of peoples too weak to protect themselves...