Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yogi Berra might say, it was deja vu all over again. Five weeks after a computer-science graduate student forced the Defense Department to shut down , its Arpanet computer network by infecting it with a self-duplicating electronic virus, the Pentagon learned that one of its smaller military information systems, Milnet, had been broken into by an unknown hacker. Last week Mitre Corp., a Massachusetts-based defense contractor, warned the Pentagon that someone had gained unauthorized access to Mitre's system, which is linked to the Arpanet network. Fortunately, the invader had access only to nonclassified material, and none...
MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become entrenched in the civil rights movement. From the black community's frightened silence to the local lawmen's self-righteous denials, director Alan Parker has powerfully reimagined a time and place...
Sharfstein's conclusion that "Jews have an obligation to insist on Israel's adherence to higher principles," while perhaps an idealistic dream, can only prove self-destructive for a state under seige. His presumptious knowledge of what is "morally right for Israel" seems at best, equally disturbing. Glen I. A. Schwaber...
Wellbery said the report was "self-initiated by the committee to look at grading practices at Stanford." The report did not call for action but merely presented the facts of the survey which resulted in some discussion...
Nora is a self-centered, live-for-today, would-be dancer (if only Mama and Uncle would give her the chance). Carnesale succeeds in portraying the shortsighted selfishness of her character in the first act, and her depiction of the various emotions of a 17-year-old are well executed through most of the play...