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...appears to have been hatched on a campus in the developing world. They say small cells of hackers--some at colleges, others in contact only electronically--pose an unprecedented threat to the computer systems of the industrialized world. For some, computer mischief is an educational exercise, a way to hone their computer skills. Others do it for sport or profit or the fun of committing large-scale vandalism. And for a growing number, the motivation is ideological or nationalistic. Cybercops have begun focusing on a small number of hacker havens--similar to money-laundering havens--where lax or nonexistent laws...
This is not the first time Coelho's management has been questioned. He transformed the Gore campaign several times last year, banishing longtime advisers, firing many members of the campaign high command. His brash style proved to have been right for the moment: Coelho helped hone a sloppy, unfocused operation into one that dispatched Bill Bradley with relative ease and brought the Vice President within striking distance of Bush in the national polls...
...does Gore do it? How does he manage simultaneously to know all the relevant data and publish alarmist, unscientific screeds such as Earth in the Balance? Without taking away from his mental acuity, one might note that Gore has had eight years to hone his own understanding of what the multivalent meaning of "is" is. Make such semiotic slop the basis of your metaphysical system, and it's easy enough to see how what is actually a neat correlation between sunspot activity and global warming is, and is not; how today's warming hysteria is, and is not like...
Coincidentally, Okinawa will be the site of Mori's first major international appearance when he is host of the G-8 summit in July. That leaves him just three months to hone his diplomatic skills and demonstrate his potential as a national leader before he sits down with the heads of the industrial world's most powerful countries. On that occasion, his peers will be watching closely to see if Japan's new leader-by-default is anything more than a successful party infighter...
...what will likely be the septuagenarian's last major undertaking, Wolfe has decided to hone in on the college experience. Perhaps peaking a little late he is intrigued by "hooking up," the title of a forthcoming collection of his essays. Already this year, Wolfe has visited Harvard twice. Is the acclaimed author in the custom-made $5,000 suits planning to use Harvard as a model for his next masterpiece...