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Last summer Russia's collapse had the peculiar result of spurring foreign banks and money managers to run screaming from Brazil--and Brazil's tumble cascaded through Latin America. "So we are living in this funny interconnected world," says Naim, "where a country that does not trade with Latin America, does not have investments with Latin America, is on the other side of the world from Latin America, crashes and takes down Latin America...
This week Peninsula was back in the news, but for a peculiar reason: that is the very fact that it has been absent from the news for so long now. We at Dartboard know the pain of trying to stir up controversy but being met only with apathy, so we have decided to help out our partners in provocation. We propose to provide Peninsula with recrimination welfare; no publication should be denied at least a subsistence level of rhetorical counterattacks...
...lulled back into Dial-a-Quote mode, could explain the odd coalition of impeachment hawks, who want to keep the trial going in hopes they can finally land their prey, and process groupies, who want to keep the trial going largely to pass constitutional muster. He could explain that peculiar on-again, off-again relationship between Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch. He could explain Trent Lott...
...been made. Gates' TV appearance was part of a two-pronged effort: a Microsoft p.r. campaign to counter those famously snarly Gates videotapes, and a courtroom defense, begun in earnest last week, to fight the antitrust charges against the company. At the center of both is Microsoft's peculiar vision of the computer world and its place in that realm. Microsoft sincerely sees itself as a force for good--bringing PC users technical innovation and consumer value--and far from being a powerful monopoly, feels threatened on all sides. It's a radically different view from the government...
...English speaker uses 40 different sounds, called phonemes; the Dragon system used our training session to predict how I would say each of those sounds. Finally, I dumped in a few columns of "vocabulary builder" so the software could learn some of the peculiar phrases I use, such as "trainshouters" and "Bust-A-Move." Everything checked out. "My guess," said Gervais, "is that just by being more conscious of how you speak, you'll improve your accuracy...