Word: revolutionize
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Mao Zedong, the leader of the communist revolution that forced Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, used to say he could wait 100 years to bring the province back into the fold. Today's men in Beijing are less patient...
Such a conclusion should come as no surprise. Notions of self-control and abstinence are absolutely foreign to this generation, and are fought against by it as repressive measures of a reactionary regime. Truthfully, there have never been reasonable arguments against immediate sexual gratification--besides fear of AIDS--presented to...
Letting Newt Be Newt. After the 1994 election, Clinton figured that no matter who gets the Republican nomination in 1996, his real opponent until then will be Newt. "There was a personification of the negative side of the G.O.P. revolution," says Senator Chris Dodd, co-chairman of the Democratic National...
DID SUN BUY APPLE? THAT WAS the loudest buzz question in Silicon Valley last week, as insiders tried to guess the outcome of talks over the possible merger of two icons of the digital revolution. Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems, two vastly different companies, were haggling over the buyout of...
When Apple was run by co-founder Steve Jobs from 1977 until '85, it was a self-consciously maverick firm that lived to be different (not entirely dissimilar from Sun Microsystems today). Its idiosyncrasies created a revolution. The benefit of its attitude started with the Apple II, which defined the...