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Obviously, privacy and each man's access to it, no matter what his job, must be sustained [NATION, May 11]. However, the issue of truthfulness, and the nurturing of truthfulness, seems to have disappeared behind the smoke screen of personal privacy in the case of our shameless President. Somehow we must keep the moral and ethical issues in the forefront and resolve them in such a way that our children have positive examples to pattern their lives on. It is unfortunate that the moral issue in this case involves sex. The American penchant for locker-room humor has permitted...
...with paternal pride; and the grand fakery of it all works its sorcery on the heart. In one scene you get the truth in an actor's lie, the art in the oldest melodramatic tricks, the gotcha! of cinema's power to create a simpler, more beautiful world on screen. This is pure moviemaking, naked and irresistible...
...removed from this list, send e-mail to..." Spammers place a high premium on "live" addresses, that is, active mailboxes. Your request to be spared solicitations will actually put you on a "must-spam" list. Another easy solution: maintain two e-mail addresses (or, in the case of AOL, screen names). One address is just for friends, family and work; the other is for public stuff, such as chat rooms or registering for software at websites. Be sure to check out the online resources that battle spammers. For AOLers, the best place to go is keyword JUNKMAIL. Or send complaints...
...minority perspective and that the typical Net user is furious about spam. And with good reason: By some estimates, unsolicited junk messages account for more than 15% of all Internet e-mail--and as much as 30% on America Online, where spammers' "robots" cruise chat rooms to collect screen names. Spam is particularly obnoxious because, unlike the direct-mail solicitations that come via the postman, the online recipient pays the delivery cost...
DIED. MONTIE MONTANA, 87, rough-riding cowboy who left the Montana range to appear in silver-screen westerns alongside John Wayne and Roy Rogers; in Santa Clarita Valley, Calif. A skilled lassoer of barnyard beasts, Montana was more famous for hitching humans: he roped President Eisenhower during Ike's 1953 Inaugural parade...