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...technological building blocks of new social connections. For example, Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs—organized in the same way as flash mobs, but with more serious intentions—details how these active technologies helped Philippine and Seattle protesters redeploy themselves on the fly. Peter Ackerman, an expert who studies the non-violent overthrow of repressive governments, believes that high-tech concepts like smart mobs offer potentially powerful frameworks for political resistance, because the process of organizing takes place under the radar of their governmental opponents and is therefore harder to suppress...
Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes introduced the Dalai Lama, joking that even at a place as old as Harvard, the Dalai Lama was “an even more ancient institution...
...first-rate new studies line up more or less on the side of time and the liberals. Peter Steinfels' A People Adrift (Simon & Schuster; 392 pages,) and David Gibson's The Coming Catholic Church (HarperSanFrancisco; 350 pages) are both thoughtful, moderate in their judgments and worried. "If the church does not change," says Gibson, "Catholicism will hardly disappear. But it will face the sadder fate of a slow-motion enervation...
...rules. Last week buzz spread that the end-2006 deadline for implementing the rules may be pushed back. That prospect worries European banks already changing over, which could cost up to $200 million per bank. Expect a showdown at next month's Basel reunion of central bank heads. - By Peter Gumbel One Down, So Many To Go Ben Glisan, former treasurer of Enron, became the first executive to be imprisoned over the accounting scandal at the bankrupt energy firm. Glisan was sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to securities and wire fraud...
...It’s robbing Peter to pay Paul,” he added...