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After meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made no effort to hide his grim expression from his staff. From the Palestinian perspective, the talks hadn't gone well. Abbas had complained to Rice that an earlier chat and a bear hug with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, at the Secretary of State's behest, had only landed him in trouble with his fellow Palestinians. According to a presidential aide, he told Rice that "Olmert embarrassed me by not implementing a single Israeli promise...
Danger is just one way that the linguistics industry--interpreters who relay live chat and translators who process documents--has changed dramatically. More benignly, the Web and the global economy have led to 7.5% annual growth in the market, now pegged as a $9.4 billion business, according to research group Common Sense Advisory. While much of that is due to the military, there has been renewed growth elsewhere. "Firms from Starbucks to McDonald's now have to communicate and market to customers in dozens of different languages," says Common Sense Advisory president Don DePalma...
...have not read "B@L," the allure of the anonymous, online chat room is its unabashed voyeurism: the graphic sexual fantasies and the inexplicable descriptions of people whom writers "know" from the dining hall, section, or, most likely, Facebook. Recently, boredatlamont engaged my curiosity because my name has been mentioned on its pages repeatedly. But I would have lost interest quickly had the comments simply ranged from the flattering ("Andrew Fine is my McDreamy") to the hurtful ("Andrew Fine is fugly...
...this age of anonymous chat rooms and Lamont glory holes (now filled-in), the possibility of "human contact" is becoming much more distant. With the ever-strengthening communities that have formed on sites like boredatlamont (one writer excused himself on Monday night for dinner and assured other commentators that he would be back soon), online forums could institute a vicious cycle in which the most vulnerable students become reliant on virtual reality as their medium of contact...
...dissing on conservative talk shows is predictable - the Compact is "anti-American" and "anti-capitalist" - some eco-critics have also been tough to please. Last week, compacters were attacked in their chat room as "hypocritical and smug," for boasting that they repair rather than replace their vacuum cleaners. "If you were really concerned about curtailing runaway consumerism, you'd ditch your broken vacuum cleaners for a broom," wrote one purist. But Kesel counters that she can't get cat hair off her rug with a broom. "People say we don't take it far enough," she muses...