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...fact, that was the last penalty of the night save one—a holding call on Caitlin Cahow 10:28 into the third overtime—as the officiating crew resolved to let the game be decided at even strength once it turned to sudden death...
...understand why the Post report has touched such a raw nerve. No other scandal arising from the Iraq war has prompted such sudden firings of top brass and abject Pentagon apologies. Defense Secretary Robert Gates saw a public hungry for accountability, not perspective. It was too late to erase the image of the peeling, moldy walls in Building 18, even if it housed just one recovering soldier for every 1,000 living in comfort. The damage was done...
Samuel Morse had perfected his telegraph only a few years earlier, but by 1848 the country was wired, from Boston to New York City to Washington to Chicago and New Orleans. Again, the shift was sudden and profound--from days or weeks to send a message to instantaneous communication. Today we take for granted synchronized one-hour time zones as a kind of natural fact, but only after trains and the telegraph had connected distant cities were the U.S.'s time zones reduced from dozens to four...
...Sudden technological progress plus suddenly large cities produced modern media. We know that today's digital revolution obeys Moore's Law, the doubling of computers' microprocessing power every 18 to 24 months. I discovered a comparable dynamic operating back in the old days. With steam power and new rotary presses during the first half of the 19th century, printing speed doubled every few years, which meant many more and much cheaper newspapers with larger circulations, and new illustrated magazines. Scientific American, Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly all started between 1845 and 1857. The New York Sun, Herald, Tribune...
...made me soooo nervous. I agreed to do the movie and had no idea who else would be in it. I just figured he wouldn't have actors of that caliber and fame because I thought it was a little indie movie. All of a sudden, it was Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn and Jude Law, and it's like, "Oh, crap, what'd I get myself into?" But it was too late to pull out. If it doesn't work, though, I hope I can always go back...