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Before long, the Colombian cocaine kings had created the largest chemical export operation in South American history. Overseeing the business as if they were heads of a multinational firm, the coqueros transformed a once chaotic industry into a vertically integrated consortium. For the transportation of drugs, they used well-established smuggling pipelines; for their distribution, a North American syndicate stretching from Miami to Vancouver. Escobar united the coqueros into a cartel and even organized a fund to serve as a kind of insurance in the event of raids or losses. The drug dons were also shrewd enough to invest their...
...offer the first full-time master of software engineering degree. Started by An Wang of Wang Laboratories, Inc., the hugely successful computer company in nearby Lowell, the institute aims to educate a new breed of executive scientist who can create models of order in the individualistic and chaotic computer-software field. Wang believes that its integrated regimen of planning, design and testing of new systems, guided by written instructions, can be an answer. Set up in a former Marist Brothers seminary, the institute is an independent nonprofit school. Only ten of its 50 master's candidates come from Wang Labs...
...continue along the same chaotic lines for now. We're not going to decide on a standard computer for students and we will not decide that everyone but a computer," Martin told the Faculty at its last general meeting. "We expect to continue to provide equiptment and software that is compatible with different computers at low prices...
...Israeli forces should take in response. But Jerusalem would rather leave any such matter to the Lebanese. Said Major General Ori Orr, head of Israel's Northern Command: "I prefer to leave that problem to Amin Gemayel." The chances that the Lebanese Army could step in successfully under such chaotic circumstances are thought to be negligible. Partisan militiamen, for example, control the heights overlooking the road between Sidon and Beirut, and that link could be easily cut in the event of an upheaval. Said a Western diplomat in Beirut: "The Israeli withdrawal could throw the whole of Lebanon into chaos...
This is perhaps truer than ever in Passage. Like Forster, Lean uses India not just as a colorful and exotic setting but as a decisive force in shaping the story he is telling, almost as a character. And as a resonant symbol: of the unknowable and chaotic universe everyone inhabits; of the unknowable and chaotic inner life that inhabits everyone. Those images in which man's pretensions to power, to mastery over self and fate, are trivialized, swallowed up in the vastness of the Indian earth and sky, are careful, conscious efforts to express the film's theme visually without...