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...ELTIS: Document after document on the slave trade shows human beings making matter-of-fact decisions about the lives of others as though they were pieces of merchandise. There is no hint of guilt or recrimination. It is because we cannot understand this mind-set today, that, difficult as it is, we have to attempt to distance ourselves from modern values. If we do not do so, we will not come to understand how such things could happen, and if historians can't do this, then they have no function beyond story tellers...
Thus, here in this column I present the first public Greenleaf Test. The following quotations have come from two different sources, one an unnamed presidential candidate (hint: I made the test as easy as I could without lowering the bar below the two party system), and the other a simple "babbler" computer program (CS-51 students might recognize this program as the Markov-based babbler of assignment 8). I allowed the program to use some general text from the congressional record so that it might "learn" the fine nuances of political rhetoric. And here, in no particular order...
...Bush is stepping into the ring for what could be the title fight of election issues. On Friday, the Republican challenger will unveil his energy policy for America, his proposal to fill the void that he says the Clinton administration has left on the issue. Here's a hint: They call it black gold. Texas tea. Oil, that...
...numbers hint that such a scenario is taking shape again. Treasury bonds this year have returned 13.9% and cash (T bills) 3.9%, both outstripping the 2.2% return from stocks, according to Ibbotson Associates. The disparity is less dramatic after taxes. Bonds are taxed as ordinary income; stocks are taxed as capital gains, normally a lower rate. Still, these returns are unusual and suggest there is something in the air. Investors have responded by taking their most defensive posture in years. It all seems a little overdone. Few economists forecast a recession anytime soon. Yet with the often unsettling month...
...getting into full swing. The group included advisers who have helped shape both the Bush and Gore programs, and they disputed--though with remarkably little heat--the merits of those plans. But Democrats, Republicans and nonpartisan professionals all agreed on the fundamental outlook. And they left more than a hint that it would change little, if at all, no matter who wins the White House...