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...will keep. He was already having trouble abroad because, with the cold war over, even old allies have other fish to fry. Netanyahu refuses to be persuaded. Canada wants to do business with Cuba. France and Russia are rushing to invest in Iran. Government leaders in Malaysia and Singapore proclaim the superiority of "Asian values." Now the entropy can only get worse. Clinton's crisis will strengthen the resolve of those who resent American leadership and rattle the confidence of those who rely...
...reported Grove's view that technology is not good or bad, it just happens. That may be a reflection of society, but I'm still naive enough to want heroes. I want leaders to proclaim that if used wisely, this technology can provide one of the seminal moments in human evolution. The printing press, radio and television all come to mind as precursors of this revolution. Perhaps Grove has made his goals clear simply in his involvement with Intel, but if he has a view that reaches beyond our limited horizons, how I wish he had shared it with...
Besides telling it to the judge, Mir Amal Kansi, the Pakistani citizen sentenced to death Friday for the killing of two people in a 1993 attack on CIA headquarters, decided to tell it to the Net. Kansi broke his media silence by going online Friday to proclaim that his only regret is that he did not kill top CIA officials...
What causes were available? There was no Vietnam War to protest, no sexual revolution or drug culture to adopt (live free and die), no generation gap worth exploiting. The Gap had become a clothing store, the counterculture reduced to a few average hysterics who thought it exciting to proclaim God dead and the family expendable. As for opposing technology, it seemed out of the question. A decision had already been made to join our machines rather than beat...
...moment the trouble lifted for Al Gore last week, the Vice President was stepping onto a basketball court inside a Connecticut middle school. Gore was marking time, waiting for Janet Reno to finish her press conference so he could step up to his own battery of TV cameras and proclaim that he was out from under the shadow of a special prosecutor. While he waited, Gore shed his suit coat and strolled to the foul line, chatting with a few dozen seventh- and eighth-graders who were trying out for the school's team. He bounced the ball a time...