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...Games for the city, was brought back in May 2000 to head ATHOC, the Athens Organizing Committee. She got results. She reorganized ATHOC, forged close links with the Greek government and by weight of her formidable personality steamrolled the opposition and made contractors meet deadlines. In recent weeks, a stream of I.O.C. officials has visited Athens and issued complimentary statements. "A lot of progress has been made, and things are moving quickly," says Denis Oswald, chairman of the I.O.C. Coordinating Commission. "I am confident that in the end we'll be ready on time." Still, I.O.C. officials - many of whom...
...countryside in the hands of fickle warlords and many Pashtuns suspicious of the disproportionate dominance of ethnic Tajiks in his government, the remnants of the Taliban may be finding fertile ground for a resurgence. Beside the bomb blasts and assassination attempts in the capital, there has been a steady stream of direct attacks on U.S. bases and patrols in different parts of the country...
Because of his deafness, Kanevsky says, "I considered speech more mathematically and tried to find mathematical patterns rather than acoustic ones." One of his first breakthroughs was to teach computers a new way of picking out individual words in a stream of sound. Kanevsky's mathematical method made it possible for people to talk to ordinary computers without pausing...after...each...word. Derivatives of this algorithm, first published in 1991, are used in many of today's voice-recognition products...
...steady stream of conservative columnists has been asking the question "Do We Still Need the Saudis?" (No, is the usual answer). Concerns over everything from the price of oil to the prospect that cutting Saudi Arabia loose might very well hand the country over to the likes of Osama bin Laden are given short shrift. Typical is the essay in the neo-con flagship journal Commentary, arguing for Washington to abandon the Saudis and foment a region-wide revolution against Arab authoritarianism in an effort to remake the Middle East on terms friendlier to the U.S. and Israel...
...their fixed costs. The correlation exists among those with both low and high incomes. Peace of mind, it seems, comes from knowing you can pay the bills even if the stock market blows up. "The big ah-ha," says Henrikson, "is that people have found that managing an income stream from their nest egg is very difficult when the market doesn't cooperate...