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...security services to spurious Chechen guerrillas. In June, when Gusinsky was arrested, Putin told a press conference in Germany that he had been unable to find out why Gusinsky was in prison: he had not been able to phone the prosecutor general. Today Chechnya, once Putin's abiding policy passion, is rarely mentioned now that the military effort there is firmly bogged down...
Which life form, the biological or the artificial, will have the more winning personality? Can it be true that humans, being cranky and irrational, have, for all these years, stupidly congratulated themselves on the idea that, whatever their technical imperfections, they have richer personalities (turbulent with love, laughter, passion, envy, etc.) than the merely rational/mechanical robot? Maybe, next to the sleek artificials, we messy biologicals (requiring deodorants and bathrooms and toilet paper and all the rest) will grow self-conscious and ashamed...
These were not crimes of passion, of money, of gangsters. They were crimes of desperation, and they have stirred up a panic about teenagers akin to the consternation in the U.S. after the school shootings of the past few years...
...girls - at Gore's Harvard, they called them parietals - were abandoned under pressure of the baby boomers' importunate hormones (the hormones shrewdly mixed themselves up in anti-war politics, which made "sexual liberation" a cinch). The convention kiss is proof not only of an endearing and enduring connubial passion between the middle-aged high school sweethearts Al and Tipper, but also of the residual baby boom refusal to grow up and behave like adults. Grownups don't behave the way Al and Tipper behaved that night in Los Angeles - not in front of the convention and millions of viewers...
CAMPAIGN FINANCE He says he brings "the passion that comes from personal experience" to the battle for reform, promising that the first bill he will sign into law will be a ban on soft money. He wants to create a "Democracy Endowment" to help pay the costs of campaigns...