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...sure, Greenspan would never say that--or anything else so explicit. He once quipped that on taking over the Fed in 1987, he learned "to mumble with great incoherence." Nor does he buy the wildest new-economy talk. He dismisses as "less than credible" any idea that "we need no longer be concerned about the risk that inflation can rise again." Greenspan is on guard, a renowned numbers cruncher who keeps tabs on the most obscure corners of the economy. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, former governor of the Bank of England, once remarked that at conferences Greenspan was likely to back...
Upon the aforementioned bleachers reside the wildest fans in the Ancient Eight. Smothered in green sweatshirts, hats and face paint, two or three thousand students squish together and chant in voices hoarse from the previous night's parties...
...click on easily identifiable icons on the screen--a trash can and a file folder. Jobs also paired the laser printer with the computer, thus sparking the desktop-publishing revolution. "We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams," laughs Jobs...
...movies don't have to fail. The Fugitive, The Rock, The Long Kiss Goodnight satisfy the dramatic unities while kicking beaucoup butt. And sometimes a gifted director can go beyond the conventional pleasures. With Face/Off, John Woo, the Hong Kong auteur (The Killer, Hard Boiled), has made his smartest, wildest, positively Woo-siest American thriller. Working from a vigorous script by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, Woo weaves his familiar touches--the slo-mo, the gleaming candles, the long coats flying in the breeze, the doves flying in a chapel as an omen of death--around the central fantasy...
...decisive game of the match was Game 2, which left a scar in my memory and prevented me from achieving my usual total concentration in the following games. In Deep Blue's Game 2 we saw something that went well beyond our wildest expectations of how well a computer would be able to foresee the long-term positional consequences of its decisions. The machine refused to move to a position that had a decisive short-term advantage--showing a very human sense of danger. I think this moment could mark a revolution in computer science that could earn...