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Notorious for restricting the kinds of phones and applications customers can use, Verizon may have liberated its users, serving as a model for the industry. On Nov. 27, the company announced it will let any phone, technology permitting, connect to its network. The plan could push other U.S. carriers to offer the same flexibility, already common in Europe and Asia...
Which philosopher has influenced you the most? Lucilla Teoh, SINGAPORE I wrote my dissertation on Thomas Aquinas and he remains a great model of honest reason. In the last decades I've been more and more influenced by the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce. He was a great genius, one of the inventors of modern semiotics...
...Malaysia commemorated 50 years of independence this past summer, but the celebratory pageantry masked an underlying identity crisis. In many ways, the country is a success story, the very model of a modern Asian nation. Buoyed by oil revenue, capital Kuala Lumpur bristles with skyscrapers and industrial parks, while a massive administrative capital called Putrajaya has risen from what were palm-oil plantations two decades ago. In September, Malaysia's first astronaut blasted into space, his flight mirroring the nation's ambitions. Poverty has been reduced from half the population at independence to just 5% today, as an affirmative-action...
Prompted by Gergen, Summers offered leadership advice alongside his policy prognosis, saying he did not foresee his own career path, which included a stint as Treasury secretary. He hesitated, however, to offer himself as a model...
Qian also credited his thesis adviser David Der-Wei Wang, a professor of Chinese literature, for much of his success. “He has been a real model to me, and I don’t know where I would be without...