How's this for just a taste of the plotline of this literary classic and movie this Sunday night at 8 pm, picking up after the future mayor auctions off his wife and child,

"Henchard, 21, is appalled when he sobers up. Sneaking into a church, he swears not to touch a drop of liquor ? not for the next 21 years. When we next see this tormented family, 19 years have passed. Susan and a grown Elizabeth-Jane (Jodhi May) are trudging that same Wessex road. Newson, the sailor, is dead. Having few resources, they are returning to find the man that Susan has described only as a relative by marriage. To their shock, he is now the mayor of Casterbridge and, despite a recent crop disaster, the region's most prosperous corn and wheat merchant."

I never got to "The Mayor of Casterbridge" but realize that I really need to. Maybe this movie will give me a little push.
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"Microsoft.com was completely inaccessible for two hours Thursday evening and experienced "off and on" disruptions for another two hours, Sundwall said.

DOS [denial of service] attacks come in many flavors, but are all designed to cripple a Web site or computer network using floods of useless traffic."

This is terrorism. Imagine if someone blocked all entrances to your local McDonald's for a couple of hours. Even if you thought their food contributed to poor health, you'd still have to consider that a crime.
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