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...Clintonian Permissivists chanted, "It's nobody's business! It's nobody's business!" The Moralists spluttered back, "Would you want your daughter...!? That creep...!" And the Permissivists chorused in return, "They all did it! Look at Roosevelt! Kennedy, for God's sake! Johnson!" and so on, pointlessly, grimly, until the dinner was more or less ruined. By the time we arrived at dessert, all present realized that an ugly weather system had moved in, something like the greenish air before a tornado...
...futurist, however, Saffo does see an opportunity in all this to help distant generations. "For God's sake, let's go to five digits [for calendar dates in software] so we don't have a Y10K problem," he advises. Amen...
...history of the last third of 20th century cinema, Spielberg is the most influential figure, for better and worse. In his lesser films he relied too much on shallow stories and special effects for their own sake. (Will anyone treasure The Lost World: Jurassic Park a century from now?) In his best films he tapped into dreams fashioned by our better natures...
...report of the incident and Elster's arrest did not appear in the HUPD [Harvard University Police Department] blotter and the relevant incident numbers were skipped. HUPD claims the reports were misrecorded in the blotter, a record that is public for the sake of student safety. For breaking the law--and its trust with the student body--the HUPD should be investigated by state authorities...
...parents, for my sake, would like to see me out of [Sudanese politics]," says el-Gaili, who identifies with the "technopols" of Turkey and Egypt he wrote about for his thesis. "[But] there is that sense of obligation--having had this unique opportunity, to share it with my country...