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...rated frames spur run on Roger Rabbit laser disks...
...people gradually become more accustomed to the idea of the "infoway," the concept is already experiencing a backlash. At Harvard, the location of laptop computers can spur enough controversy to generate two Crimson articles. Many remain defiant in their e-mail virginity...
...would gather young and old, warriors and elders, turbulent adolescents, the sleek and paunchy middle-aged, the venerable and wheezing. Lawyers and truckers, body builders, Senators from Oregon, good husbands and wife beaters, Spur Posse mouth breathers, waiters, neurosurgeons, garbagemen and nerds, Tailhookers beastly and Kennedys innumerable, Bly drummers, sweet guys and feel-copping clerics, politicians, pillars of rectitude, forced-entry brutes, girlymen, stockbrokers, philosophers, sales reps, homeless ruins, ex-wife- drained alimoners, gangsta rappers, J. Crew preppies and gunrack bubbas, family-values Bobs and Herbs, whirlpooling cretins, introverts, Fundamentalists, jocks, spazzes, fatboys and hunks and delicate blossoms, biologists, astronauts...
...June 12, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith aimed and fired his deer rifle at the Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a father of three. The murder quickly became a watershed in the history of the civil rights movement, a spur to greater national awareness both of the evil of racism and of the collective obligation to remedy...
...proudest of The Crimson when it points out the moral failings of the Harvard community and when it acts as a spur to the consciences of its readers. News judgment is similar to (but not identical to) a finely tuned sense of moral outrage. So it's been news over the last three years that Harvard didn't pay its clerical and technical workers enough for them to afford adequate child care...