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...second-year student at the Smeal College of Business Administration is given 500 tokens (think Monopoly money) to bid on the classes he wants. It's an online process, and students can bid high for a seat in a must-have class--or for one they think they could barter later. Unpopular professors may feel as if they are on The Gong Show...
...futile and stupid. Russia is not the superpower that the Soviet Union once was, and this policy can be counterproductive. We're not going to collect all the money Putin hopes to collect. Countries such as Iran and Iraq won't pay cash up front; they'll probably barter oil, which will ultimately enrich privately owned oil companies in Russia, but not the state. So we won't get much, but we shall lose our hard-won relations with the normal parts of the world, and we'll find ourselves isolated along with Iraq, Iran and Libya. Putin's visit...
...sequence is extraordinary in its casual, almost perfunctory approach to the barter of human life-it's a poker game of the ultimate stakes. Yet, at the same time, Thorne is so wholly in control of the situation that you never feel the jolt-that cinematic shot of adrenaline-that leaves you perched on the edge of your seat. Crowe's character is cool and unflappable, handsome and rugged, but a just a bit too muted and restrained for comfort. The same could be said of the movie he inhabits...
...those notorious, no-name boxes of pasta for cheap eating. Needless to say, we were slightly over budget. Unabashed negotiation and downright pleading helped make the project possible. Our graphic design firm, for example, accepted "one gig owed" as part of our payment. Nothing wrong with revisiting the old barter economy...
WebSwap, on the other hand, lets folks mail one another directly. It's the biggest barter site on the Web, with people hawking everything from a half-full bottle of Prell to a flock of sheep. I listed a dozen items, including the latest Patricia Cornwell thriller, a Beatles CD and three Star Trek movies, but for some reason I couldn't manage a single trade in a month. (During the same time, I traded five CDs on MrSwap.) Part of the problem could be that WebSwap requires a one-for-one swap with whoever wants your stuff, making...