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...evidence of a direct link to the militant Saudi millionaire is far from clear along the trail that began with Ressam. The feds figure he was just a "mope"--G-man jargon for an expendable figure--an amateur with the least skills who gets the job with the most exposure. That explains why he was nervous enough to catch Customs' attention as he came off the ferry at Port Angeles, Wash. It also explains why he was careless enough to leave a paper trail. Ressam's pockets produced a scrap of paper scribbled with the name "Ghani." That took...
...look up. But security guard #2 doesn't remember us from an hour before. We tell him to ask Gigi. We know Gigi will recognize us. Gigi frustratedly looks us up and down, and says she's never seen us before in her life. We spout off some jargon and names and one rings a bell somewhere. She lets us back in. I am happy to return to my seat on the big purple plushy couchy thing. Enter Kelly, Miss TRL herself...
Wheee! In one presidential cycle, cyberpolitics has gone from being the quirky obsession of a college kid and his gizmo at the back of campaign headquarters to something far sleeker--e-campaigning. The capital's hard-bitten direct-mail and fund-raising pros are reshaping their careers, slinging e-jargon e-nauseam and looking to those same kids for Web strategies. Millions of dollars have been raised for presidential candidates online, and voters who may not know about any of them are being targeted at their terminals and put to work...
According to the Internet company's corporate Web site, Ask Jeeves is a company that allows Web surfers to conduct a search using "your native English, the language you use when conversing," making the Internet accessible for those not familiar with Web jargon...
...into the dark corners of scholasticism?...But when the light finally did brighten things up, it turned out to be the light of cold reason, limited to the technically doable, to economic and social progress, a reason that claimed to be enlightened but that merely drummed a reason-based jargon (which amounted to instructions for progress at all costs...