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...declare a truce over the fact that Bush took us there. For those who support him, the policy of pre-emptive engagement is the ultimate sign of his visionary grasp of what is needed to fight and win the war on terror. "Something had to be done," says Kathie Tenner's husband Bruce, who sounds a lot like Bush when he argues, "Over the long haul, if we can establish democracy in one nation over there, it's going to spread." Edward Wiederstein, a farmer in Audubon, Iowa, goes so far as to suggest that Bush's critics are "promoting...
...Quincy: Wenya L. Bi, Kathy Chang, Ross G. Douthat, Michael L. Faye, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Claire E. Herrick, Julie L. Rattey, Andrew J. Rosenfeld, Emma C. Samelson-Jones, Bridget E. Tenner, Steven C. Wu, Allen T. Yancy and Jesse G. Zalatan...
...Bridget Tenner: I am recovering from a big spaghetti dinner, trying to understand how my clothes always seem to grow over a trip and I can never quite fit them back into the suitcase they arrived in, a bit worried about the fact that somehow I didn't open my books over the past nine days, still drying off from the cold Chicago rain (why? why is it not spring yet?!) and of course compiling and scheduling a list of all the signs on the Northwest Tollway (I-90) that need to be inspected this summer...
Indeed, what inspired Tenner to write the book was his observation 10 years ago that the personal computer, then heralded as the cornerstone of a tidy, eco-correct "paperless office" of the future, was creating more paper, not less. Nowadays, of course, with the Internet pouring ever more information into our lives and our printers, the paper-strewn paperless office seems less like a paradox than a fact of life...
Still it serves as a nice metaphor for what remains a deeper conundrum about computers: despite their growing power and ubiquity, especially in modern offices, the resulting increase in productivity is almost negligible. Tenner offers some convincing reasons why this might be so (time-consuming software upgrades; downsized secretarial pools), but no reassurance that the dilemma will ever be resolved...