Word: swartz
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...country's civilian court sets an important example for all the other nations of Latin America [WORLD, Dec. 23]. The courageous actions of President Raul Alfonsin will make it more difficult for other democratic governments to avoid bringing to justice the perpetrators of human rights violations. Milton Swartz Orlando...
CONVICTED. DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, 58, former CEO of Tyco International, and MARK SWARTZ, 44, the company's longtime chief financial officer; of stealing more than $500 million in cash and stock sales from the global manufacturing behemoth they built; after a four-month second trial (the first was declared a mistrial last year); in New York City. The jury found both men guilty of charges that include grand larceny, securities fraud and falsifying business records. Each faces up to 30 years in prison...
...Swartz found that agents should be created in a way that leaves users feeling “in control” of their computer program and should follow “human rules of etiquette.” Clippy does neither. Its main fault, Swartz writes in his paper, is the pro-active letter-writing feature, which annoys users like Bo Meng ’06, who says he “learned how to write letters in grade...
...Swartz doesn’t hold a particular dislike for the Office Assistant, unlike Evan Hepler-Smith ’06, whose passionate hatred for Clippy inspired him—“like any good revolutionary,” Hepler-Smith says—to start the facebook group “Fuck You, Paperclip from Word.” Swartz has tried all the characters and writes in an e-mail that he thinks that some of them have “pretty cool animations...
...find any of them “particularly helpful.” So unlike Becky James ’06, co-creater of the pro-Clippy facebook campaign, “A Group about the Cuteness and Niceness of the Paperclip from Word,” Swartz has his Office Assistant turned...