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...competed well against similar proprietary initiatives for this reason: Established or presumed credibility is the main metric by which members of open cooperatives decide how much weight to attach to any contribution. Perelman’s bold claim of having proved Poincaré was taken seriously at its outset only because Perelman was already an established mathematician. Such attention would not be accorded to a novice, whose work would be met with skepticism. This hierarchy is a huge incentive for serious scientists to submit only preprints of the highest caliber and for community denizens not to ruin their reputes...
...gave interviews to the London Daily Mail and the BBC that had 10 Downing Street scrambling. Though he pointed out that British troops had made enough progress to turn over control of two southern provinces to Iraqi forces, he also noted that they weren't invited in at the outset and are widely unpopular...
...style democratic war from the very outset because the enemy chose as its targets not masses of troops or military installations, as in traditional war, but U.S. civiliansordinary people going about their business on planes, in tower blocks, in government offices. And it was democratic because the perpetrators took advantage of the very freedoms inherent in democracy to lay their murderous plans...
...There existed another, real task force," explains Elena Milashina, Novaya Gazeta's investigative reporter, who did brilliant work on unraveling Beslan. "[It] was headed by the FSB [the heir to the KGB] from Moscow that had been preparing an assault right from the outset. Having the hostages released through negotiations did not meet their agenda, as set by the Kremlin...
...Something that is, from the outset, predictable. They don't make movies about athletes who utterly fail. On the other hand, the movie does not make too much of Papale's achievement. It indicates that he married the pretty girl and has gone on to a pleasant and useful life. It also inferentially suggests that all of us have a certain amount of untapped potential within us which, mobilized by true grit and unshakable gumption, can carry us at least a bit further than we might imagine...