Word: brutes
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...fraternities ever allow an unassimilable sociopath to barge in on their special privileges. And no prestigious university is ennobled if it rewards brute determination and financial resources alone. What mostly has to be put to the test, and to global scrutiny, in the coming years is China's readiness to play by the rules of the larger globe--and our readiness to enforce those rules, even on our largest, most intractable member...
...town in America, is used to being slighted. Where other cities have megalopolitan pride, Philly carries a provincial grudge. So it was happy to see the sporting public embrace Atlanta. In beauty contests, the Phils couldn't win, didn't try. They had a different personality, drawn with the brute simplicity of a police artist's pencil. They were the skungiest bunch of biker types and overfed beef this side of Meat Loaf. In this high-priced age of media sports, a team has to have sex appeal, charisma and watchability, and the Phillies fill the bill. If the phrase...
...being waged between spammers and programmers becomes visible to you, the prey. "Of course," says Von Ahn, "this has been a little bit of an arms race with spammers, because now there's a huge incentive for spammers to try to get around CAPTCHAS." You can bypass them, using brute force, for example, though it'll cost you. Go to a website like GetAFreelancer.com and you'll see dozens of ads placed by spammers and other bad actors, who hire whole teams of people to read and type out CAPTCHAS, all day, by hand, by the thousands. ("How the hell...
...arts festival, combining the grace and fluidity of dance with the explosive energy and dynamism of martial arts. Aikido, often translated as “the way of the harmonious spirit,” is not simply about overpowering the opponent. “The techniques emphasize subtlety over brute force, which is great when you don’t have the physique of Xena,” Chin-Lee writes in an e-mail. The highly improvisational format of Aikido exhibitions is closer to a jazz concert than a self-defense class, requiring practitioners to constantly adapt...
...that groups ranging from disaffected Tibetans to human rights activists would try and take advantage of the approaching Olympics to exercise some leverage for their causes when Beijing seemed most vulnerable. And yet, China's leaders appear to have been completely unprepared to respond to challenges with anything but brute force and harsh words...