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Faris, 53, scratches to find some Democrats who are conservative enough to support, but hasn't turned up many. Only two of the 31 candidates the small-business federation pushed hardest in 1994 were Democrats. This year the federation aims to give $1 million to federal candidates, up from $370,000 two years ago. To get the most for its money, the federation plans to broadcast ads tying the candidates it endorses to the pro-Main Street policies that its polls show are wildly popular. Among those policies: tax cuts and deregulation...
...unlike Harvard undergraduate life, getting in is not the hardest part. Once here, students work 16 hour days, six days a week, with Mondays, not weekends off. Graduates get no degree, only a certificate and perhaps an Equity card if they focussed on acting. Without the same name recognition as Julliard or the Yale School of Drama, real progress is still the biggest asset they can take with them into professional theater's carnivorous job market...
...freshman class at Georgetown, he offered his bold plan for the future: "The freshman year is not the time for crusading, but the building of a strong unit for the future...You must know the rules before you can change them." Elected President of the U.S., he fought hardest for a deficit-reduction package in 1993, then repudiated it last year, then repudiated the repudiation...
...lesson here--now dogma among researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI--is that the hardest thing for computers is the "simple" stuff. Sure they can play great chess, a game of mechanical rules and finite options. But making small talk--or, indeed, playing Trivial Pursuit--is another matter. So too with recognizing a face or recognizing a joke. As Marvin Minsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology likes to say, the biggest challenge is giving machines common sense. To pass the Turing test, you need some of that...
...then there are the interview questions, infamous for their difficulty. Go says he found the questions about himself hardest to answer. "When they ask you to talk about your worst failure, of course you don't want to tell them your worst failure because you're scared they won't hire...