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...crisis has been made worse by the flailing, amateurish response of some of the affected leaders. As Malaysia's currency, the ringgit, and its stock market plummeted, mercurial Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad implied that international financier George Soros and his ilk were responsible. He then trotted out a familiar, repellent accusation, blaming Jewish speculators who he contended were out to squash the economy of a Muslim country. His proposals to restrict currency trading and otherwise punish foreign investors quickly scared away new investment and called into question the future of what has been one of the world's great economic...
When computers were mediocre typewriters 10 years ago, few people cared about this country's income gap in computer ownership. With the rise of the Internet, however, a new buzzphrase has sprung out of the John F. Kennedy School and it's ilk: "equal access to information." The idea is that the computer itself is of limited value; it matters as an access point to the world of information online...
...both science and humanities, the majority of them probably identify themselves largely with one group or the other, and even might express some good-natured scorn for the other discipline. An engineering student, who asked not to be identified "for fear of reprisals," said of English students and their ilk that "they think they're changing the world, but where would they be without their word processors?" One applied math major, who was similarly faint-hearted about his quote being cited, characterized his more verbally oriented colleagues as being "self-indulgent, non-rigorous, and generally without use." While most would...
Altavista is a search engine of the former ilk. There are no frills, just a blank field for you to enter your search query...
...these folks know they're fox-trotting on the edge of a volcano? No, of course not. They never do. But we do. We've been partying with their heedless ilk on the eve of disaster since we started going to the movies. We know that when the pretty girl and the handsome lad start moonily planning their future, the crump-crump-crump of an artillery barrage is but a moment away...