Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claims by CompuServe that the government told the firm which newsgroups to block and reiterated that they never explicitly threatened CompuServe with criminal charges if they did not comply. CompuServe last week had blocked access to some 200 newsgroups on Usenet, a portion of the Internet, touching off a storm of speculation that online services might be held accountable anywhere in the world where material available on the service is considered illegal. A CompuServe spokeswoman repeated the company's initial explanation that it was German authorities who drew up the list of offending topics...
...storm will bring anything from 6 to 15 inches of snow and sleet to the area, starting mid-afternoon today, according to the national weather service's branch in Boston. Gusty winds are expected to worsen the travel conditions just as Harvard students scramble to depart safely for the holidays...
...flight was scheduled for [today] but then got moved because my airline stopped flying on Tuesdays," said Joshua M. Cohen '98. "I was angry because I was going to miss some classes. But when I found out about the storm, I was psyched because I am going to avoid it. My roommate from Alabama is freaked and really worried...
...careful," warned Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III yesterday. "I assume that most people will have left already [by the time the storm hits], but if the storm is bad and the airport gets closed, that could be a particular problem...
Good thing winter doesn't start until Friday. Schools were closed from Missouri to Connecticut, power was knocked out for thousands of homes in the midwest and flights were delayed coast to coast as a severe winter storm covered much of the country on Tuesday. The heaviest snow is predicted to hit parts of the East Coast and the Northeast tonight, with as much as 18 inches predicted...