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...also supposed to be a crucial bargaining tool for the council, for the first time giving them hard data on students' concerns to take to University administrators...
...straight hours writing code on his notebook computer. In his daze, the idea appeared to him as something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became usable, so that the hard black metal was transformed into a friendly tool, so that the 0s and 1s, the Windows API protocols and Unix server commands, were all somehow buffed and polished and worked to a fine, wonderful, simple application. That was his idea. And it was big and frightening and full of implications, and it filled him up, this 18-year...
Today, amid an unprecedented bull market broadly enjoyed at the dawn of the Internet, the stock market is the tool of choice--and breaking the rules becomes increasingly acceptable as the players get younger. Call it extreme capitalism. If you win, you're envied as a genius...
Voluntary soft-money restraints had been a long time coming in the New York race, which is the object of immense interest (and the target of immense contributions) by outsiders. Because soft money contributions-- money given to political parties for "party building" activites--are unlimited they are a favorite tool of special interests hoping to exert influence on the political process. An unprecedented $342 million of soft money has already been spent throughout the nation in this election year. But both sides in New York wanted the reformer's mantle, and Lazio's posturing at the first debate, although puerile...
...idea of the Clintons inviting friends to stay with them that makes many people so nervous. Everyone understands that even the most public people need to have private social lives. What's potentially cringe-worthy is the image of the "people's house" being used as a bargaining tool for political gain. Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart denies any quid pro quo between the White House and the Democratic donors (but hey, he does want to keep his job for a few more weeks). Perhaps emboldened by his looming retirement, Lockhart thumbed his nose at his inquisitors, informing the press...