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Most journalists do not understand how clever these operatives are. For instance, reporters think it fiendishly clever to ask the flip-flop question. ("Sir, in 1986 you voted to permit the building of falafel stands in the Grand Canyon. Last year you opposed the bill. Isn't there a contradiction here?" Correct response: "Not at all, Ted. You're overlooking a key distinction...
...subscribe." The Crimson even worked out a handy joint venture with The Coop, whereby students could order their papers at the checkout counter. "Geez, as long as I'm spending $500 on books this semester, why not spend another $45 and get The Boston Globe," many a victim of clever marketing thought...
...News & World Report "rankings" were a clever ploy to build up Yale's confidence, only to have it be shattered on the athletic field. This makes a whole lot of sense. All three losses happened when Yale just didn't have enough guts to pull out the win--with their women's soccer team giving up the deciding goal with 11 seconds left, to their men's soccer and field hockey teams being utterly impotent in overtime...
...sounded almost conciliatory: "I thought that such a meeting is in the far future, that work in joint institutions is fiction. Here, now, it became reality." Which doesn't prove that he is committed to rapprochement, warns Calabresi. "At the moment, because he has shown himself to be very clever and tactically brilliant at times, we have to be careful. There's a good possibility that he sees it in the best interest of the Serb Republic to play along with the international community." -->
That gets to the core of what may be the Net's biggest problem these days: too many powerful software tools in the hands of people who aren't smart enough to build their own--or to use them wisely. Real hackers may be clever and prankish, but their first rule is to do no serious harm. Whoever is clobbering independent operators like Panix has as much to do with hacking as celebrity stalkers have to do with cinematography. Another of the victims was the Voters Telecommunications Watch, a nonprofit group that promotes free speech online. "Going after them...