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...trademark--the triple deke--is unholstered when he gets in alone on a goalkeeper. Faking high and lo thrice, in rapid succession, he leaves the goaltender on his knees and the ball...
...this technology, which is expanding at a rapid pace, such a prime political feeding ground? The main reason is that the Internet is vastly overrated by those who know nothing about it. The Internet seems futuristic--it comes with trendy catch-phrases such as "information superhighway" and "cyberspace." We listen in awe and wonder as CEOs explain to us, in layman's terms, the importance of "networking" and "global resources." With the Internet, they tell us, we can do everything conceivable with the stroke of a few keys. It will make our lives easier. How? Don't know. It just...
...This is absolutely astonishing, " the professor said, regarding the rapid review of Myers' tenure case. "My understanding is that the ad hoc com- mittee is not skippable...
...died this night and they got the videotape? I tried to say in Spanish, "If a man can leap into the air, he can do anything," only to realize Spanish was one instructor's native language. He made fun of my garbled Spanish by speaking rapid Spanglish nonsense to the camera...
...same time, governments in general are having increasing trouble keeping up with the bracing new global competition and the pace of technological change. The traditional boundaries of the nation-state are being eroded by the lowering of trade barriers, the increase in foreign investment and the rapid integration of capital markets that is being driven by computers and cheap communications. Governments simply have less say over what happens in their domestic economies. In our new book, The Commanding Heights, we call this shift globality, the next step beyond globalization. It describes the high-velocity interconnected world economy in which...