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...much a document had changed over time. They pored over Ph.D. theses and complex algorithms. Instead, ace programmer David Hansson worked out a "cheat": software to track the number of characters in each document. The evolving total could be conveyed visually using dots of different sizes. With that clever solution, 37signals reduced what could have been a months-long programming project to a day's work...
...Giuliani was having a good debate even before he reduced Paul to history. He had taken Gilmore's clever attack on the front-running flip-floppers--"Rudy McRomney"--and turned it into an attack on Hillary Clinton. "We can ... discuss all that," he said, referring to abortion, gun control and gay rights, "but there's something ... really big at stake here." And he launched into what a threat to the republic Clinton would be because she believes "an unfettered free market is the most disastrous thing in modern America." When Tancredo accused him of being soft on immigration, Giuliani successfully...
Second, Giuliani's story line about standing firm would have been more impressive if it hadn't been accompanied by stories--apparently leaked by his staff--about how they came to settle on this strategy and how clever it is. In the first Republican presidential debate, Giuliani tried to project ambivalence (not a bad place to be on abortion), but it came out as indifference (a bad place to be). He said it was O.K. with him if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and O.K. with him if it didn't. So his campaign decided to go with...
...directors were correct that the meaning of the word changed, but the change occurred in the 15th century at the latest. By 1960, “rape” meant what it means today; all that changed in the interim was the political climate. The song, though clever, was and remains a disturbingly blithe treatment of sexual assault. Of course, cutting the song would be impossible, while whitewashing the song, as many have done (often substituting the word “raid” for “rape”) would have detracted from the show while failing...
...Perhaps Google could figure out a way for the storage space in House basements to magically grow as well. Or maybe we could fill the empty top floor of Massachusetts Hall with futons and couches now that freshmen will not be living there. The possibilities are endless. But finding clever places to store our stuff does not answer the pressing question: What were the College and HSA thinking in rehiring Collegeboxes? The only possible answer we can come up with is that they are resting their hopes on the George W. Bush philosophy of bungling: “There?...