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...certainly does not contemplate war with France—as it did with Germany early in the twentieth century, when sauerkraut briefly became “liberty cabbage.” But changing the name of America’s favorite potato junk food is hardly an effective enough finger-wagging to reprimand France...
...amused, but let’s not be deceived about what it all means for us. The greatest travesties of American foreign and domestic policy were committed under the noses of a confused citizenry which wrinkled its brow but for the most part didn’t lift a finger...
Pariser sits at the nexus of what Howard Rheingold would call a smart mob. Rheingold, a veteran technology watcher and well-published futurist (Tools for Thought, 1985; Virtual Reality, 1991; The Virtual Community, 1993), has put his finger on yet another transformative technology. In Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Perseus; 288 pages) he describes how large, geographically dispersed groups connected only by thin threads of communications technology--cell phones, text messaging, two-way pagers, e-mail, websites--can be drawn together at a moment's notice like schools of fish to perform some collective action...
...Last week, Duterte held a live, nationally televised press conference to deliver his defiant message to the terrorists. Extending the middle finger of one hand, he declared, "It's our turn now to start bombing you ... I will create hell for those criminals ... It's either I who will be killed or you, you idiots." The war on terror began in Southeast Asia just a few months after 9/11. It's far from over...
...from being available is wrong and should be discouraged. Unfortunately, even asking tutors to ask their students to stop tearing down posters has been less successful than hoped. On one floor in DeWolfe, posters were torn down nine times in two days while the proctors refused to lift a finger. The Quincy dining hall stairs frequently bear the remnants of posters torn down just a few minutes after being...