Word: wakefulness
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...don’t wake up a cyborg, but every morning I become one for at least a quarter hour...
...rebel fighters who stormed N'Djamena Friday evening withdrew when formerly grounded Chadian Army helicopters attacked their trucks and positions in the capital. What they left in their wake bore witness to the intense and random nature of the violence. N'Djamena's main business street, the avenue Charles de Gaulle, was littered with destroyed cars, burned corpses, and the detritus of trees cut down by flurries of machine gun and rocket fire, according to eyewitnesses. Although initial reports described fighting limited to rebel and government forces, French aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières said...
Among the more laughable aspects of the SocGen debacle is that, in its wake, the bank's top management has been sending out signals that it was the relatively mundane nature of Kerviel's work in "the mine" that led to the lax controls. The implication is that everything is just dandy on SocGen trading desks for vastly more complicated derivatives - including those based on worthless subprime mortgages, which are now crucifying bank balance sheets and roiling equity markets all over the world. Have no fear, folks: management is watching those like a hawk...
...religious extremism, and an anticommunist bent that made him a key cold war ally for the U.S. Yet army general Suharto was also a brutal dictator who purged hundreds of thousands of critics as Indonesia's ruler from 1967 to 1998. He was forced to step down in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, but the controversy over his reign continued. Indonesia's new government launched inquiries into the corruption. Suharto sued TIME after it published its own 1999 investigation into his ill-gotten gains. He won his lawsuit on appeal; TIME is challenging the decision. Suharto spent...
...Belichick’s cunning plans are his very own Darth Vader (Tom Brady) and Boba Fett (Randy Moss). Brady, too perfect and too efficient, is more robot than man. Moss is a hired gun brought in by the Empire to ruthlessly eliminate its enemies, leaving destruction in his wake in the form of broken touchdown records. Coach Tom Coughlin leads the Rebellion, otherwise known as the upstart Giants. Coughlin plays the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a seemingly crazy old man who makes a sacrifice (Kenobi’s life, Coughlin’s archaic style of authoritarian coaching...