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...broad theme in your work seems to be a mild form of optimistic technological determinism, in contrast to the typical 1980s cyberpunk dystopian future. Your model of the Bitchun Society in “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” in particular seems to be, if not quite a utopia, at least a world in which boredom is one of the biggest problems for most people. Do you think today that our technology is gradually narrowing the possible outcomes into a miasma of mediocrity...
...movie.” 5) AZN—“Asian Pride” Schwartze, a Catholic caucasian, explains that “I live with two Asians. Also I belong to the AACF (Asian American Christian Fellowship).” 6) “Blues Clues Theme Song” “Look at me! I’m cowering!” says a huddled-in-a-corner Schwartze as she tries to hide from the harsh glare of journalistic inquiry...
...True dialogue—where you’re constructing something—doesn’t happen in section,” Seton said. “If there’s one theme in ‘The Big Question’ it’s that we’re trying to ask the big questions that relate to our role in society as college students, as Harvard students, as citizens...
...Kurdistan's boom. Almost no Iraqi flag flies, and fewer than 1,000 U.S. soldiers are deployed in the territory. In the lobby of Arbil's only five-star hotel, which is filled with American and European businessmen discussing prospects, the buzz in the crowd has one persistent theme: in the world's most dangerous country, foreign businesses can work safely by basing their Iraq operations in Kurdistan rather than 200 miles south in Baghdad. "For anybody wanting to do anything in Iraq today, the entry point is Kurdistan," says Magne Normann, DNO's senior vice president and Iraq project...
...gold, Siberian native Evgeny Plushenko, whose childhood rink had closed for lack of funding, captured Russia's fourth consecutive gold in men's figure skating. (Compatriot Irina Slutskaya is also favored to win this week's women's event.) The 23-year-old Plushenko, whose choice of the Godfather theme for his long program was rather cheeky at a Games hosted by Italy, was equally bold on the ice, opening his routine with an awesome combination of a quadruple toe loop, a triple toe loop and a double toe loop, followed by a triple Axel-double toe. Although his athleticism...