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...nobody in his right mind should forget the quagmire into which the U.S. sank when it engaged in the internal affairs of Southeast Asia. But it's a bit much to take an example 30 years old as the sole guide to our actions today. There's an analogy much closer to hand. Iraq is a dictatorship with a centralized economy; it strictly controls access to the outside world; its people live in fear of thugs from the state security apparatus; and not least, it devotes much of its budget to secret military programs. All of that was true...
...most successful new products take is predictable: "from the Fringe, to the Edge, to the Realm of the Cool, to the Next Big Thing, and finally, to Social Convention." If you have deviants on staff, say the authors, nurture them. If not, seek them out and hire them. "Never forget, your deviants ought to be your first, best line of competitive commercial defense." --By Andrea Sachs
...nationals. A woman inside Paddy's claims to have seen an Indonesian man in a brown plaid shirt carrying a plastic bag into the club. She was evacuated from Bali and is now in an Australian hospital with extensive burns. The Australian quoted her as saying, "I will never forget his face as long as I live." Perhaps, locked inside Rimbawa's tormented mind, is a vivid picture of that same murderous face...
...Forget smallpox. What really keeps the anti-terrorism bureaucrats up nights is foot-and-mouth virus. Last spring, the Bush administration tried to block the release of a report titled “Countering Agricultural Bioterrorism” by the National Academies. The government wanted to keep this legitimate scientific study from the public so as not to give al Qaeda any ideas about sneaking foot-and-mouth disease—or other agricultural pests—into the country to decimate our beef industry. Luckily, the government lost, so you and Osama can now order it online at www.nap.edu...
Tina: I normally buy things and forget where I got them. The jeans are from the Gap, I have no idea where I got the boots. The mittens I just got from Urban Outfitters. I got the yellow scarf in Costa Rica four years ago. It used to be a dress, but I go into these cutting phases where I cut up my old clothes and make them into something...