Word: transformers
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Change is a burning-away, like the dragon's egg hatched in fire: a sudden birth, sometimes painful. Power comes in the ability to transform, the ability to withstand transformation, and to prevent it when necessary...
...particularly as it applies to the biggest winners, U.S. presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. "Lincoln" portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; "Empire" makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
...sectors to making Enron a leader in the booming telecommunications business. The plan isn't to go head to head with established fiber-optic carriers such as AT&T, Qwest and Williams Communications. Instead, Enron wants to use new switching technology and its expertise in trading pipeline access to transform a modest telecom network into a powerful arbiter of bandwidth. Enron's bet is simple: supply and demand will increase exponentially, turning bandwidth into a tradable commodity, just like gas and electricity. Along the way, why not partner with companies such as Blockbuster and use this new technology to offer...
Realistically speaking, my work this summer will not transform the demographics of Southie. These problems grow from deeply buried, tangled roots. Yet, I can show my ten kids a little more of the world outside South Boston. I take them on the swan boats in the Public Gardens, to the Museum of Afro-American Art, to Harvard. I hope they will understand that a whole world lies just a short T ride away. The realization that different life paths exist, besides corner-loitering or stoop-sitting, is the only way that the next generation of Southie kids will be able...
...know it's a slow news day when former president Gerald Ford makes the front page of anything besides the Grand Rapids Golfer's Gazette. But the New York Daily News' "exclusive" bid Monday to transform the normally inconsequential chatter of a political nonentity into serious campaign fodder was questionable perhaps only in its placement...