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Pius' story can be seen as the macro to Edith Stein's micro. Devout and ascetic in life, long a favorite of the church's conservative branch, the wartime Pontiff has been sharply criticized both by Jewish leaders and church liberals for his refusal to publicly condemn the Nazis, a "silence" that some suggest may have cost untold Jewish lives. Pius' defenders reply heatedly that his efforts to hide Jews in Italy and elsewhere saved thousands. More important, they insist that silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about...
...Macro viruses such as "Concept" and "Wazzu" can do everything from preventing you from saving your document to actually destroying data. They are spread by the opening of infected documents, and often exist unannounced, wreaking havoc without taking credit...
...virus that causes the most trouble for document creators is the macro virus, which infects primarily Microsoft Word and Excel files and of which there are over 2,000 variants...
Word allows users to create "macros"--short, simple programs that can automate various processes--and a macro virus is just a macro that is destructive...
Ambrose's macro war is suitably conventional. Allied Commander Eisenhower was the right man in the right job; British Field Marshal Montgomery was an obstructionist and all-round pain in the keister; Patton was the best field general of the war, despite eugenic notions that were strictly Third Reich--he pulled the bravest men off of the front to preserve their bloodlines...