Word: dreamers
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GHOST IN THE SHELL. The classic anime, directed by Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor, Beautiful Dreamer), tells the story of a super hacker—the Puppet Master—who is loose in cyberspace. The “ghost” is pursued through a futuristic metropolis by the cyborg cops of Section 9. Meanwhile, Major Motoko Kusanagi searches for her own humanity within her robotic body. Based on Masamune Shirow’s original manga, the anime is a must-see for Matrix fans—it served as direct inspiration for the Wachowski brothers. Ghost in the Shell screens...
...elephant in the china shop can learn to step lightly, many opportunities for peace, prosperity and collaboration will remain intact. Three decades ago, only a hopeless dreamer would suggest that war would go out of style. Yet as we begin the 21st century, war has been shelved as a means of policy among developed nations and in the entire Western hemisphere. America’s leaders need to recognize and carefully protect this unique opportunity to peacefully expand the new world order of freedom and prosperity...
They were two guys named Steve, so Steve Jobs was called Steve and Steve Wozniak went by Woz. At 25, Wozniak was the technical brains. Jobs, 21, was the dreamer with a knack for getting others to dream along with him. They had gone to the same high school, and in the hazy years after graduation --both were college dropouts--a shared interest in electronics brought them together. Jobs didn't yet have his own place, so when their formal partnership began, the decision was made in a bedroom at his parents' ranch house in Los Altos, Calif...
...seek to discuss Martin Luther King Jr. not as a dreamer, or even a visionary, not as an advocate of colorblindness, but as an activist who pursued a methodology in which his vision of justice for blacks was animated by a vision of justice for all,” she said...
...League of Nations would endanger American independence were "a masterpiece of political incompetence." Among the more hard-nosed realist practitioners of American statecraft--the sort of folk who have found a natural home in the Bush Administration--it has long been fashionable to deride Wilson as a fuzzy dreamer. In a January 2000 article in Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice, who would become Bush's National Security Adviser, sniffed, with obvious disapproval, that there were "strong echoes" of "Wilsonian thought" in the Clinton Administration...