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...sounds like McCain lately. "I'm not giving tax cuts for the rich," he says. Roosevelt's progressive-era reforms helped create government regulations; Reagan wanted to ease them. McCain again takes from both, and has not figured out how to reconcile the two competing impulses. He wants to fix education and improve health care without new federal programs, so he ends up with half-baked policies and fuzzy talk about block grants--the kind of thing Reagan and Roosevelt might both somehow approve...
Unfortunately, unless they have a computer-science degree or access to a highly motivated 13-year-old, the folks who are now stuck with AOL's loading whenever they want to go online are probably faced with calling AOL's customer-service number to fix it. Why AOL--which is buying Time Warner--doesn't put its fix-it recipe online or on its start-up screen is beyond me. But that's not my problem; you are. And I'm here to help, dear reader...
...things are harder to fix than the tarnished image of a police force. The NYPD, for example, recently saw the p.r. efforts that followed the Abner Louima torture case nullified, first when Mayor Giuliani discarded a task force report that called for departmental overhaul and now with the trial of the cops who fired more than 40 bullets into unarmed Amadou Diallo. Mention of the Chicago Police Department, despite the absence of recent major scandals, still evokes images of protesters brutalized and hosed down by rampaging police outside the 1968 Democratic convention. But no American police department has been...
...could modify and rejigger it exactly the way they wanted to. Torvalds' real stroke of genius, though, was to give Linux away for free, and to make its code open to all, so that any hacker anywhere in the world could improve it, add to it, and, when necessary, fix its bugs. MORE...
...within the earth's atmosphere, changing global weather patterns. If this theory is correct, then the basic equilibrium that has maintained the earth's natural heating and cooling system for the past 10,000 years is about to be thrown into turmoil. We will be left to try to fix...