Word: switch
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...TAP’s student leaders said they have qualms with the leadership switch and say that the move to hire Hale and Dorr instructors was made without considering its effects on their organization...
...also find no evidence that the switch to the Yale-style housing system would strengthen the relationship between first-year students and upperclassmen. First-year students would still eat in Annenberg, limiting interaction in the dining halls and continuing to separate first-years from upperclassmen. In addition, one of the reasons the Yale-style housing system works so well at Yale is the high-level of enthusiasm for College life (at Yale, Houses are called Colleges). This pride plays a large part in Yalie freshmen’s wholehearted participation in College life. Harvard sports a less frenzied House environment...
According to Jami M. Snyder, Communications Coordinator for HUDS, the switch to these organic, less expensive alternatives was “to expand our overall cereal options...
...Part of the problem is technical. To withstand a nuclear blast and keep on ticking, the Net was built without a central command authority. That means that nobody owns it, nobody runs it, nobody has the power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed," says Clifford Stoll, a Berkeley astronomer famous on the Internet for having trapped a German spy who was trying to use it to break into U.S. military computers...
...Daily in Washington, by night publishes an electronic broadsheet called CyberWire Dispatch, in which he tells readers what he thinks is really going on. Last April he investigated an Internet advertisement offering $500 or more just for receiving junk E-mail and uncovered what he called a bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued for libel. Whatever the truth of the story -- or the merit of the suit -- Meeks now faces...