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...continue to sift through your reactions to having been named Person of the Year, reactions that range from the giddily delighted to the grandly disappointed. Many of you who are strict advocates of the "great man" view of the world let us know just who should have taken your place on the cover...
...skirt war zones in the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan, and in Georgia, which has been in a conflict with South Ossetian separatists. Then there were the engineering issues: the pipeline had to pass under about 1,500 rivers. At one point BP hired 400 archaeologists to sift through the mountain of ancient artifacts unearthed along the way. Equally daunting was the political wrangling: two of the three countries changed Presidents during construction, requiring lengthy renegotiations over the deal...
...continue to sift through your reactions to having been named Person of the Year, reactions that range from the giddily delighted to the grandly disappointed. Many of you who are strict advocates of the "Great Man" view of the world let us know just who should have taken your place on the cover...
...lost his taste for technology. Joining Booz Allen Hamilton, the mega consulting firm, McConnell spent the next 10 years selling gadgets and software to the government. In 2002, Booz Allen won a $63 million "data mining" contract with the Pentagon. The general idea behind it was that if you sift through enough public data, you can spot a terrorist, and McConnell was a strong backer of the program. But Booz Allen's contract was cancelled when civil libertarians objected to the government going though Americans' personal records without a warrant...
...SHREDDER They cost as little as $15, and you'll never have to worry about Dumpster divers, who sift the trash for discarded financial statements...