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JOSHUA QUITTNER has the kind of job William Gibson might have foreseen. Every weekday in cyberspace, Quittner produces an irreverent column called the Netly News that appears on TIME Warner's Pathfinder Website http://pathfinder.com/Netly/) Then, in the physical world, once a month he rides a few floors down in the elevator to write a story for TIME's more traditional vehicle. Having aggressively covered the progress of the Communications Decency Act for Netly, Quittner was well positioned to write about the landmark court decision this week that found the law "profoundly repugnant" and unconstitutional. "This is a story...
...such an elitist institution that it has not realized the inconvenience and expense it causes to those it invites for celebration? I would like not to think so, but I--and many years of previous writers to this page--am honestly at a loss otherwise to account for the weekday Commencement schedule. Is the requirement for a weekday graduation inscribed somewhere in the original charter of the College? Then change it! If we can add no fewer than 26 amendments to our national Constitution, then surely we can make a trifling change in Harvard...
...afterschool program lasts from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. each weekday and includes an evening meal...
...have blocking madness to consider. But it isn't the tangible problems that are making February icky. Instead, I feel that a certain futility has overshadowed the repetitiveness of college life, even after only one semester here. Weeks elapse, and besides the reading selections, nothing changes very much. Weekday: class, Annenberg, darts, work, coffee, Annenberg, work, darts, sleep. Weekend: beer, darts...
Cynthia Wiggins was a 17-year-old single mother struggling toward a better life. She was engaged to be married and had dreams of being a doctor. Every weekday she boarded the No. 6 bus in her predominantly black Buffalo, New York, neighborhood for the 50-minute ride to Cheektowaga, a white suburb, where she worked as a cashier at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips in the glittering, white-marbled Walden Galleria Mall. Often during the day, charter buses would pull into the Galleria parking lot and disgorge shoppers from as far away as Canada. But the city bus wasn...