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Stearns ruled that "while the government'sobjective is a laudable one,...its interpretationof the wire fraud statute would serve tocriminalize the conduct of not only persons likeLaMacchia, but also the myriad of home computerusers who succumb to the temptation to copy even asingle software program for private...
Experimental theater is risky. The danger lies not so much in the author's decision to stretch the limits of the genre as in the temptation to succumb to the kind of incoherence which is too often confused with depth...
...Cuteness doesn't take me as far as it used to. As a Harvard student, I'm supposed to think of a new, creative and witty costume each and every year. Invariably, I put the decision off until the last minute, then I get nervous, and then I succumb to peer pressure and dress up as something I regret (like the time my friend Allie turned me into a gypsy woman for an evening...
...tight time frame -- the prime-time hours during which a new network is presenting an extravagant premiere broadcast featuring all its stars and programs. The movie wants to show us the frenzy of such an enterprise, bring everyone involved as close as possible to panic but not in itself succumb to breakdown. This is a feat that has always interested George Lucas, who wrote the original story and is the executive producer. As we know from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, he loves multilevel, multicharacter, broadly played popular fiction edited at a pace that flirts with incomprehensibility...
Against the Tribe, the Crimson put together some of its best moments during the first few minutes of the game, yet the team was ultimately unable to sustain its high level of play. With a huge defensive breakdown and a lack of communication, the Crimson was not able to succumb to its opposition...