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A huge trove of State Department communiqués offers an extraordinary look at the inner workings, and sharp elbows, of diplomacy.
It is reassuring to know they are there. Most of the time these things could be on page 28 or even stay in the reporters notebook. Perhaps they belong in the congressional record. Public for those who care. Most of the time they are not worth our attention like the Wall Street Journal.
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shira posted to Twitter an article:
“Why am I suddenly thinking about Ender's Game? Robots, the Military’s Newest Forces - http://nyti.ms/i8GgaQ”
Why not? Card was thinking about warfare.
( http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/endersgame/summary.html )
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Vitaly Borker welcomes customer complaints, saying they vault his business higher in Internet search results.
Business by game theory.
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Two years after the economic meltdown, most Americans now recognize a caste system where everyone remains (at best) mired in economic stasis except the very wealthiest sliver.
Why make the exception?
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Carmen posted to Twitter an article:
“U.S. Orders Vast Review of Bioethics - http://nyti.ms/hm7851”
I approve of this action.
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The tech column celebrates its 10th anniversary of reviewing hits like the BlackBerry and Kindle and misses like 3Com Audreye.
He is right more than he is wrong. I differ mostly on the details.
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President Obama should excoriate phony deficit hawks who say that jobless benefits are too costly, even as they pass expensive tax cuts for the rich. Politics is not a spectator sport. And there is no ref.
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The odyssey of a Chinese-Korean woman shows how human trafficking survives, even in Midtown Manhattan.
Coercion is an easy way to steal a living. We try to keep it criminal.
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“Interesting anecdotes: "Students and Technology, Constant Companions": http://nyti.ms/ahPWjp”
These kids never see the technology. At the scale of modern devices it is invisible. Its incomprehensible complexity approaches psychology by physical direct manipulation.
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“By @ronlieber "A Dying Banker’s Last Financial Instructions"- http://nyti.ms/fuo72m”
Finance is a shell game. We ask, he tells.
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soorea posted to Twitter an article:
“We’re No. 1(1)! - http://nyti.ms/acGkKl 어떠한 희생도 치르지 않으려는 이기적인 유권자들의 말로. 모순되는 말을 사람들은 믿는다. 믿고 싶기에. ”
Thomas Friedman likes the shell game. He thinks he can win.
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“Great piece about a web merchant criminal who will hopefully experience some hurt by authorities. - http://nyti.ms/fzhjxD”
This one thinks he should steal.
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“Get It Right - http://nyti.ms/eRv6qa #p2 #tcot #teaparty”
One cannot get the model right unless one understands what an input does to the output. Thomas Friedman does not understand what an input does to the output. He cannot "get it right"
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“In AIDS Fund-Raiser, Celebrities Will ‘Die’ Digitally - http://nyti.ms/gajsFR #in ”
They come back as zombies!
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“‘William S. Burroughs: A Man Within’ - Review - http://nyti.ms/arls0k” Digitally dead?
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Justice John Paul Stevens said he found the death penalty unconstitutional because of racism, politics and hysteria.
"he wrote that personnel changes on the court, coupled with “regrettable judicial activism,” had created a system of capital punishment that is shot through with racism, skewed toward conviction, infected with politics and tinged with hysteria."
Not dead yet.
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“I guess Alexa Chung is now also going to be huge Stateside - the Making of Fashion’s Latest ‘It’ Girl - http://nyti.ms/ftyWLT”
She is good to look at but she is not my choice.
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“Eye-opening SEO article: For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing - http://nyti.ms/fzhjxD”
There is peril in missing the subtleties.
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Americans understand that we need nation-building at home, and we need it now.
We, all of us, are sovereign in our own right. Nation building means building persons. The rest follows.
