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...economist, Ferguson is particularly good at explaining how the assets seized by Elizabethan buccaneers fed, in the 18th century, the habits of an emergent consumer society hooked then as now on sugar, coffee and tobacco; how Britain evolved a system of national debt to build a vast navy; how the East India Company's ports and forts seeded a global system of trade - which he dubs Anglobalization - that still thrums today. But Ferguson's Empire balance sheets show some creative accounting. Though he dutifully frowns on the horrors of slavery or, say, the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan...
After lunch, study group members took one last glance at the vast view of the river before splitting up into groups to tour the building...
...large, this is a compromise the public accepts. "We know the vast majority of encounters are fake," says Hindustan Times editor Vir Sanghvi. "We do not think that this is a perfect situation, but in common with the rest of the middle class we have come to the regrettable conclusion that there is no real alternative." For a professional enforcer like Sharma, success isn't just measured in body bags or reduced gang violence, but invitations to celebrity parties and near unanimous media praise. "I don't enjoy killing," says Sharma. "But after we shoot some mobster, his victims look...
Cooper still looks distantly like the Clinton High prom princess she once was, and the past nine months have not left her jaded. "We have 62,000 employees working very hard. These employees did not do this. The vast majority of WorldCom is made up of capable, honest employees trying to do the right thing. Only a handful of people were involved in any wrongdoing," she says. "I feel a personal obligation to see this thing to some kind of conclusion." When asked what that might be, she answers, "I don't know...
...didn't take long for data-management companies to realize that if their software could find links in customer buying patterns and improve retailers' inventory decisions, perhaps it could find links among the government's vast terrorism-related intelligence warehouses and enhance the government's ability to prevent the next attack. After 9/11, many tech companies saw opportunities for both patriotism and profit. Oracle offered to donate the software to create a federal identity database. Siebel Systems CEO Thomas Siebel boasted to a House subcommittee that had his company's software been used by law-enforcement and intelligence organizations before...