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Last spring, on the first day of Government 1800: "Globalization and its Discontents," I listened intently as The New York Times' Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman expounded upon the dangers of the "globalization of technology." He warned of the "super-empowered angry men," such as the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center, who had capitalized on the proliferation of technology to orchestrate the devastating bombing. "Now, you don't just have AOL-America Online, but you also have JOL-Jihad Online!" The class erupted with laughter...
...selling into less than two post-Fed hours, investors were at it again the day after, pushing the indexes steadily downward into Wednesday afternoon. With the markets getting the message that Alan Greenspan is not anxious to ride to their rescue, whither Wall Street now? TIME Wall Street columnist Dan Kadlec gives voice to the bears' lament...
...Salient, Flare and on this page, there has been a running debate concerning the morality of homosexuality. Both Flare and David B. Orr '01, who wrote as a guest columnist for the Salient, argued that it is time for our society to move past arguing whether or not homosexuality and homosexuals are moral. In his column last week, Stephen E. Sachs '02 argued that liberals should participate in this debate, because refraining makes liberals appear too timid to engage in the intellectual combat of these debates and because given the lack of logically consistent arguments against homosexuality, liberals would...
...anonymous quotations from "worried pals" who thought Cheney should cut back on his work load. Talk-show hosts repeated their physicians' advice to take it easy. Political types made book on who would replace Cheney if he bows out before George W. Bush runs for re-election, and syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington wondered if the Vice President was on some kind of "suicide mission...
...Last week, a Michigan Daily columnist was confident enough to report, "From Cambridge to Ann Arbor, what was once a question of 'Will he go?' now seems to be more a question of 'When will...