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Around the same time as SoBig struck, feds descended on the teenage author of another virus like Elliot Nesses for the Matrix age, and one righteous New York Times letter-writer went so far as to compare that young coder to a fanatical terrorist. The creators of SoBig remain at large, and may well strike again, but one thing is certain: whoever they are, they are most likely neither Al Capone nor Muammar el-Qaddafi. Everyone whimpering about the destruction SoBig has caused should take a deep breath and learn to enjoy a little chaos...
...stances. Improved transparency of financial markets In the aftermath of the East Asia crisis, there were demands for increased transparency on the part of developing countries. Although the crisis stemmed more from imprudent financial and capital market liberalization than from a lack of transparency, the call for greater transparency struck a chord - until it became apparent that greater transparency could apply also to the advanced industrial countries' offshore bank accounts and hedge funds. At that point, some in the U.S. Treasury became decidedly less enthusiastic. Nonetheless, the OECD developed an agreement restricting bank secrecy - an initiative vetoed by the Bush...
...Crimson had gathered among the usual crowd of teenyboppers and star-struck fans who wave to TRL cameras from the streets of New York City with the hopes of being invited inside to the live...
...terrorist attacks. The day after the blackout began, an editorial by The New York Times predicted that people caught without power “will remember where they were when the lights went out, and will tell one another that for a few minutes, they wondered whether terrorists had struck again.” The knowledge that the blackout was not the result of an attack spread quickly over radio waves and by word of mouth. Mismanagement of an antiquated power grid was a far less harrowing explanation...
...college to the United States Military Academy at West Point, perhaps the only other school in the U.S. that rivals Harvard’s impact on our national history. It is not, of course, my place to compare the relative legacies of these two great institutions, but I was struck during my visits to West Point by an image impressed on the minds of its cadets. At West Point, they call their graduates the long gray line, the queue of soldiers who have put their bodies in front of bullets for the ideals and well-being of their country. When...