Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know your opponent isn't pocketing your winnings? Rogers, a computer expert from Las Vegas, is putting the finishing touches on a device he hopes will put those fears to rest. The hardware, which plugs into the back of a PC, is a kind of gambling "smart card" that is supposed to use powerful encryption to record all transactions between the house and the player...
...genius to his life but only his talent to his art. The same might be said of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, only his life turned out to be a sad and sordid affair and his art was often no more than slapdash. As Patricia Morrisroe makes clear in her smart and readable biography Mapplethorpe (Random House; 461 pages; $27.50), the photographer's brief life-like his most notorious images-was not a pretty picture...
Well, on the Internet, all these things are true. If you're smart and witty, you'll win fans. And shy people can relax a little. The network makes it easier to confess a crush or admit a grudge. The Internet offers a respite from the social ineptness of Harvard life. and it can lend people a modicum of self-confidence and self-esteem that's not easy to find around here...
...Harvard because everybody is smart here, but you can see it in the workforce," he says. "I have friends whose parents got slighted from jobs because of affirmative action, not because of merit...
...jokes about how Harvard likes to think she's the American dream. Raised in the rural midwest by two white women who were mostly unemployed and receiving welfare benefits, she grew up into a smart and funny if "hard to get to know" Harvard student, who is Black, gay, female and incredibly confident of who she is --confident enough to talk honestly about herself for publication in a newspaper...