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Since George W. Bush took over the White House, Blair has founded his foreign policy on achieving trust with Washington's new gang of Texan-accented unilateralists. He disagrees with Bush on many topics, from the Kyoto climate change accords to how hard to lean on Israel. But he figured the place to influence this self-absorbed bunch was from inside, so he noisily backed Bush on nuclear missile defense and told Europeans to take the idea seriously...
...leaders still clamor to grace. Since George W. Bush took over the White House, Blair has founded his foreign policy on achieving trust with Washington's new gang of Texan-accented unilateralists. He disagrees with Bush on many topics, from the Kyoto climate change accords to how hard to lean on Israel. But he figured the place to influence that self-absorbed bunch was from inside, so he noisily backed Bush on nuclear missile defense and told Europeans to take the idea seriously...
...Just lean forward," Kamen commands, so I do, and instantly I start rolling across the concrete right...
...think about backing up." Once again, I follow instructions, and soon I glide in reverse to where I started. With a twist of the wrist, I pirouette in place, and no matter which way I lean or how hard, Ginger refuses to let me fall over. What's going on here is all perfectly explicable--the machine is sensing and reacting to subtle shifts in my balance--but for the moment I am slack-jawed, baffled. It was Arthur C. Clarke who famously observed that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." By that standard, Ginger is advanced indeed...
Either things got better, we gave up on not being obsessively self-referential, we started drinking more, or we proved that you can fool some of the people most of the time, and that at Harvard, those people read Fifteen Minutes. I lean more to the first three—and Prof. Irv DeVore (I think we had three stories that featured him prominently, if not solely)—can’t ignore the possibility of the fourth, and wish sometimes that we had had another year to figure...