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...Shortly after Howard Dean and the voters have confounded all the "experts" for the millionth time by soundly defeating the current corporate puppet administration, you will collectively reflect with stunned embarrassment at your futile attempts to impose "conventional wisdom" on a wise electorate and Dean's brilliant, transformative, grassroots campaign, and realize belatedly that it was all quite predictable. Free advice from the real world: Job status and pay is determined by performance evaluations, something TIME might consider implementing soon. Lance Nottle Mountain View, Calif...
Those questions are the biggest mystery of Rumsfeld's year. Part of the problem, ironically, was the brilliant war plan itself. Rumsfeld and Franks so stripped down the invasion force for speed that the occupation army that came out the other end was too small for the job of peacekeeping. The military suddenly found itself having to protect banks, arms dumps, even gas stations, with just a handful of divisions. But there were other problems too. Administration officials, including some close to Rumsfeld, were suffused with the convenient belief that Iraqis would welcome the U.S. as a liberator the moment...
...fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism." JAYSON BLAIR, former New York Times reporter, who resigned from the newspaper after numerous mistakes and fabrications were discovered in his stories...
Today Google is a highly unusual company, one run by true technologists with a genuine love of banging on things, shaking and breaking them, and making them better. Behind the simple, unassuming Google home page is a wizard's workshop of experimentation, much of it useless, some of it brilliant. "Invariably we try 10 things that don't quite work out in order to do one thing that's successful," says Page, who speaks in a slow, deeply nerdy, singsong voice. "And we learn a lot in doing the 10 things that didn't quite work." For example...
...graphic novel. (While I was at it, I'd probably sabotage the recent movie version of The Time Machine too.) Short of temporal travel, the only thing that could get rid of the bad taste of the film is a sequel to the graphic novel, a sequel even more brilliant than the original. Fortunately, we now have that...