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...Jason Amerine, a Special Forces officer who fought alongside now-President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, uses his international relations class to shake his cadets out of any comfortable misconceptions about the U.S. Army and how it's viewed abroad. Conventional wisdom says that American teenagers are unshakably obsessed with instant celebrity, pimped rides and video games. But West Point kids-valedictorians, football captains, National Merit Scholars-defy those stereotypes. They choose instead four years of daily room inspections, 6am breakfast formations, with a coda of near-certain deployment into a combat zone. All they get in exchange are assurances that...
...blithe spirit of instant perishability, I offer some hints on candidates for the top prize, or Palme d'Or, or Golden Palm (as in palm trees, which line the beachfront in this Riviera resort), at the 58th Cannes Film Festival, shortly drawing to a happy, exhausted close...
...work at one of the libraries on campus part-time. Whenever there isn’t someone that needs to be helped, I usually check my e-mail, go on instant messenger, or search through the facebook, but I’m always worried that if my supervisor catches me surfing the web, I’ll lose my job. Do you think it’s okay to continue doing this anyway...
...that kind of power to squeeze out the competition. If Xbox 360 were to take over your media cabinet, would it play DVDs with Sony Pictures movies on them? Of course. But would it play songs from a Sony-owned online music store? Would it accept messages from AOL Instant Messenger? Would it network with a computer running Mac OSX and not Windows? If a platform is too open, you can't make money off it. Too closed, and nobody else uses it, and it withers away and dies...
...paper had also printed, in humiliating detail, Internet exchanges between the mayor and its hired computer-forensics expert posing as a 17-year-old boy. Over three months, the former federal agent, under the screen name Moto-Broc, engaged the man who called himself Cobra82nd and RightBi-Guy in instant-message conversations. The exchanges are in turns offensive, ironic and saddening. West is the first to bring up the topic of sex with a boy who says he's 17. But when Moto-Broc complains that his parents don't give him enough privacy, West replies, "Kids get into...