Word: ragingly
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...Josh Silver, a bank-lending activist, recently refinanced his home in the Washington area, and while his $300 monthly savings pleased him, errors in his closing documents sent him into a rage. There was a $400 overcharge for property-tax and homeowner's-insurance escrow. The bank "forgot" a $200 credit promised to him when he signed up for automatic debit payments. And at closing, he was asked to sign off on an insurance policy to pay his mortgage should he die - the cost of which had been written into his settlement papers...
...second lecture, “Rage: Resentment as Social Commentary,” Mitchell shared his thoughts on how African-American rage has been depicted onscreen since the 1940s. “At a certain point,” Mitchell said, “black people just stopped going to the movies because they were embarrassed about the way they were portrayed. Then Sydney Poitier won an Oscar for Lilies of the Field and they thought things might have changed. Ironically they hadn’t. Poitier won an Oscar for portraying an angry black man; something that had been...
...wrong one. First and foremost, asking Israel to forswear any response to an unprovoked Iraqi attack is a policy without any strategic or moral foundation, as even Arab leaders would agree. While Israeli intervention would have a short-term, inflammatory effect on Arab opinion, the rage would fade if (and it's still a big if) the U.S. removes Saddam quickly and convinces the world that its interest is to stabilize Iraq, not colonize it. The risks to Iraqi civilians - and to U.S. troops - posed by an Israeli air-strike would likely be lower than they were during the Gulf...
...slumping record industry's best hope? Glue. To combat online piracy, Epic Records has started shipping music critics personal cd players that are glued shut. Sealed inside the Walkmans, to prevent any unauthorized copying, are upcoming releases by Tori Amos, Pearl Jam AND audioslave (The remnants of Rage Against The Machine and Soundgarden). "It's a low-tech response to a high-tech problem," says Epic spokeswoman Lisa Markowitz. "A walkman costs $50, and we could be saving hundreds of thousands of dollars by preventing this music from getting out." Critics are asked to return the cd player...
...based on Linux, a system used mainly on Web servers. Because Linux technology is in the public domain, it can be easily customized for any device. Sharp is using Trolltech's mobile version of Linux in its Zaurus SL-5500 personal digital assistant. As the mobile browser wars rage on, billions of euros are at stake, and anxious mobile-phone operators are coveting data services, a crucial new source of revenue as voice revenues decline. "These are steps in the right direction toward mobile devices becoming a good window onto the Web," says Ross Bott, a venture capitalist at Silicon...