Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's not entirely true. That sound you hear in the distance is two gigantic war machines rumbling into position for a battle over the future of the Internet, a turf war that's going to make the browser rivalry look like a schoolyard spat. The name of the game is broadband, the technical term for high-speed Internet access. It's complex stuff, so much so that even the big players sometimes get confused. (When asked a convoluted broadband question at his deposition, Case did a double take. "Am I in the wrong room?" he asked, to peals...
...ground and the cameras gone, the outrage will subside. But maybe not this time. In town meetings and talk radio, the public has had its fill of politicians talking resignedly about our gun culture, as if there's nothing to be done about a subgroup that finds schoolyard massacres an acceptable cost for its right to be armed to the teeth. But if the Constitution speaks of a "well-regulated militia," why don't we regulate it? Surely the sanest teenager isn't militia material. Gun ownership should not start until age 21, and it should require a background check...
...Littleton's wake, the culture industry has gone cautious. CBS pulled an episode of Promised Land because of a plot about a shooting in front of a Denver school. The WB has postponed a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode with a schoolyard-massacre motif. Movie-studio honchos, who furiously resist labeling some serious adult films FOR ADULTS ONLY, went mum last week when asked to comment on any connection between violent movies and violent teen behavior. That leaves us to explain things...
Throughout Kosovo, the "cleansing" of the province's 1.8 million Albanians was swift and brutal. Arife Bajrami, 30, who fled to Kukes, Albania, from Izbice, in central Kosovo, said Serbs told residents to assemble at the local schoolyard. The Serbs demanded money from the women in exchange for their lives. "They made us walk for two hours to another village, then they marched us back again, just making fun of us," Bajrami said. "We had no food. I saw one old lady die on the road." As she trudged along the muddy road to Albania, local Serbs shouted, "Your land...
...today's world, I have to wonder if the film would ever have been made. Growing up outside of Phoenix, Ariz., Steven Spielberg didn't have many friends and was often picked on by his peers. He does not look back fondly on his days in the schoolyard, and it is unfortunate that, as a boy, he had such a difficult time. But if he had been dragged into a therapy group and taught to be more congenial, who knows whether as a man, his imagination would have dreamed up that remarkable Normandy landing? Noah D. Oppenheim...