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Andrew Kevin Walker wrote the screenplay for "Seven" while working at Tower Records in New York, and as a first script it borders on the extraordinary. The writing is powerful, meaningful and interesting, while resisting the impulse to be overly flashly. Even with that script, the innovative direction, and the extraordinary artistic design, the acting is what makes "Seven" really special...
...cyberwar revolution, however, poses serious problems for the U.S. Some are ethical: Is it a war crime to crash another country's stock market? More perilous are the security concerns for the U.S., where a tyrant with inexpensive technology could unplug NASDAQ or terrorist hackers could disrupt an airport tower. Giddy excitement over infowar may be shaken by an electronic Pearl Harbor. Last year the government's Joint Security Commission called U.S. vulnerability to infowar "the major security challenge of this decade and possibly the next century...
...much-acclaimed book Beyond the Ivory Tower, former Harvard president Derek C. Bok outlined the reasons why an institution of higher learning should instruct its youth in ethics...
...pork-barrel deals [CONGRESS, July 17], you ran a photograph showing large cone-shaped structures with white plumes pouring from the top. The casual reader may believe the plumes are smoke, noxious chemicals or radioactive by-products of nuclear power. In fact, the structures are environmentally safe cooling towers, not nuclear reactors. They cool water and produce a relatively harmless plume at the exhaust when the ambient air is colder and denser than the mist released by the evaporative process. RON WRIGHT, Project Manager Ceramic Cooling Tower Co. Fort Worth, Texas...
...Cambridge Savings Bank] ha[s] floated a proposal and now they're getting reaction to that," Reeves said. "It's very clear to me that Harvard Square is one of the most historic squares in the world. Now Paris doesn't just go tearing down the Eiffel Tower. We have to understand that this is a city with an architectural history and we have to preserve that...