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...sort of unilateral school-yard bullying Mr. Whitman recommends is precisely the sort of tactic most inimical to a liberal free-trading order; the assorted euphemisms of "fair trade" "reciprocity" and "objective targets" often mask crude attempts at protectionism and managed trade...
...again called upon to set the agenda, rather than thwart it. For now, though, even the Republicans acknowledge Daschle's effectiveness, at least in a backhanded way. "They made us jump a lot of hoops," says Dole. But then Dole knows better than anyone else the value of that tactic. "That's part of leadership," he adds...
...program designed to help users sort their E-mail, Maes let slightly different agents compete for the user's approval; the most favored were allowed to "mate" and pass their "genetic code" on to the next generation. More than just a whimsical mimicry of living processes, the tactic may actually be, in Maes' view, the only way for agents to keep pace with people's rapidly changing tastes in a network like the Internet. "In my vision of the ultimate software agent system," she says, "there are all these 'life' forms evolving by themselves and specializing toward whatever you happen...
...tactic that appears to be working. Just last week the Tennessee state assembly voted on a bill that would require schools to fire teachers who present evolution as if it were a scientific fact. (The measure, which had been expected to pass, was sent back to committee.) Similarly, the school board of Hall County, Georgia, just outside Atlanta, ruled last month that teachers must put forward a variety of theories on the origin of life, not just evolution. Beginning next fall, all biology textbooks in Alabama must have a disclaimer inserted stating that evolution is a "controversial theory" accepted...
...Proposition 187 in California to the recent attacks on affirmative action, the Republicans show how adept they are at playing on people's fears and prejudices. They are scapegoating criminals, people of color, immigrants, welfare recipients, etc. for the failures of the old capitalist economic system. It is a tactic as old as recorded history and is known as "divide and conquer" or "divide and rule." The amazing thing is that people never catch on. It works every time...