Word: spartanic
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...information about the computer society’s illustrious alums; rather, he’d found a hole in the code behind the web page, a way to run programs on HCS’s server. He made quick work of defacing our home page, replacing it with a spartan battle flag (still visible online at http://hcs.harvard.edu/hackedindex.shtml) announcing that “Unknown Core Own3d Harvard.” “Brazil rlz,” the attackers noted...
...play’s action transpires on a spartan, black brick stage. Marrinan and Chen have dressed the set walls and ceiling with chicken wire—giving the stage the effect of a bomb shelter or asylum. A small television set, broadcasting static, sits at the front right of the stage, and a small table and serving tray, at the stage’s rear left, comprise all of the play’s major props...
West Point administrators concede that cadets are stretched thin. But, shrugs General Peter Boylan, commandant of cadets, "you can't become Spartan by living in Athens." West Point too often produces martinets, charge the academy's critics. However, acknowledges Joseph Ellis, a retired Army captain and former West Point instructor, "the Army can't very well have officers ordered to 'take that hill' respond, 'I gave this some thought while I was reading Melville last night, and I really...
...their reservations were invalid. At the New Stanley Hotel, American Feminists Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan staged a friendly protest in the lobby, with Friedan joining the ousted in a chorus of We Shall Not Be Moved. Eventually, solutions were found: many women tripled up, while some transferred to spartan, $17-a-night dorm rooms on campuses around Nairobi...
...thing Chen will not be doing in his retirement is consuming alcohol. Chen says he doesn’t drink because he “gets drunk too fast,” though his ex-wife often chided him for his Spartan lifestyle...