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These days, I am generally regarded by my friends as the one to call when their Macs crash. I can talk SIMMs, SCSI ports and partitioning with the best of them, and I actually do rebuild my desktop on a regular basis. As I was babbling happily away to my friend Rebecca last year about expansion cards versus junking her old SE, she looked at me and said: "You know, Lori, on the surface you're this mellow History concentrator who writes for the Crimson, but inside there's computer geek just dying...
...urban-renewal schemes are bad almost by definition, since they derive from the bureaucrat's impulse to tidy up, to eradicate funk and chaos in favor of large-scale orderliness; planners fail to see the trees for the forest. During the past couple of decades, the relentlessly-raze-and- rebuild notion of progress has been overtaken by a mania for historic preservation, which is a great improvement. But preservationism can also tend toward the prissy, the anal and the monomaniacal and become a kind of by-the- book undertaker's approach that makes dead and dying downtowns prettier...
Four years later, the United States is helping to rebuild the Russian economy, white rule in South Africa is on the verge of extinction and chunks of the Berlin Wall are now sold in souvenir shops...
...there was ever a situation that cried out for U.N. intervention, it was Somalia. Failure here will cast a dark cloud over other U.N. operations. The U.N. mission now is to rebuild a country; if accomplished, it will be a significant achievement for humankind. Rather than using a nation's discord for territorial gain, other world powers will have saved a warand famine-stricken people...
...provisions come from? "It is the responsibility of the international community to finance our government until our infrastructure is established," says Zahira Kemal, an adviser to the Palestinian peace delegation. The World Bank last week outlined a $4.3 billion development plan covering the next eight to 10 years to rebuild the territories' primitive infrastructure. The Palestinians are counting heavily on outside investment from the European Community, Japan, the U.S. and the Persian Gulf states. In addition, says Ghassan Khatib, a member of the peace delegation, "there are a lot of rich Palestinians, and they are eager to invest...