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...need any programming experience," insists Cheri Grand, a company spokeswoman. "I could create a Heather Locklear character, animate her and do whatever I want with her." Traditional Hollywood studios, she notes, have lots of overhead and immense production costs. "Not us. Everything is done inside the computer." Deus ex machina. Amen...
These days he has plenty of both. In the past 10 years, as international banks have struggled with competitors from American Express to America Online, McColl has engineered a kind of banking miracle in homey Charlotte, a deus ex machina where the machina is his very own NationsBank automated-teller machines, and the deus wears cowboy boots. Last week McColl announced the boldest deal yet: a plan to merge NationsBank with California-based BankAmerica to create a golden Godzilla with deposits of $346 billion. On Wall Street, where financial stocks have sizzled this year, the marriage was greeted with huge...
...Harvard's tenure policy resembles a story made up by someone with a lousy imagination, then perhaps we can hope for the deus ex machina that storytellers with lousy imaginations tend to provide. Maybe the University will notice the discontent brewing within its ranks and actually publish the details of its tenure process, so that junior scholars can at least know what to expect. Or maybe the "policy" of secrecy that Knowles holds so dear will be seen for the antiquated machine that it is, and those who stick around for the tenure process might at least be informed...
...described time and time again as beautiful, brilliant, and full of personality. She also eludes John's proposals of marriage repeatedly. Then, as suddenly as the radio station scandal arises, she agress to be his wife. One could believe that this is nothing more than Keillor's deus ex machina for the story--she has to say yes eventually, but it has to take a while to build suspense...
...have a thinking machine is to invent a definition of thought that fits whatever it is that your machine does. Then, if this definition is too close to what humans do, you have only to invent another, safer definition of what humans do. This sort of deus ex machina should ease the philosophical anxiety surrounding the whole argument...I think. STAN SEARS Los Angeles...