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Being nerds, however, they are rather unworldly. They are similar in dress, zip code, outlook and philosophy to the Berkeley free-speech activists of the early 1960s, except that the cypherpunks have a bigger megaphone: the Internet. They can encrypt free speech and software as well, so various uptight authority figures cannot stop their heroic data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cyber Criminals Run The World? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...possible that I'm just uptight, but publicly shouting such refrains--especially when no one in particular is listening--just makes me embarrassed...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Good Will Rally | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

Drinkers of the world, unite! Less uptight and oppressively preppy than Grafton, closer than the Cellar, the Bow is a Harvard tradition. In an era of steadily diminishing social options, the last thing we need here is to eliminate the few we have left. Besides, where else will you end up at midnight on your twenty-first birthday--the Grille...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, | Title: A Bow St. Revolution For All | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...Harvard's a much more uptight place in 1999 than in 1979," he explains. "I think your generation has a lot less fun than your parents...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 25 Years for the Preacher Man | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...know why Harvard is so uptight about a fledgling institution," he said, adding that he sees Concord bringing education to students who cannot easily access...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Miller's On-Line Courses Spark Review of Policy | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

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