The myth of scale is seductive because it is easier to spread technology than to effect extensive change in social attitudes and human capacity. In other words, it is much less painful to purchase a hundred thousand PCs than to provide a real education for a hundred thousand children; it is easier to run a […]
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But as often as not, conversations led back to home. “When we go home, everything will be great,” Pvt. Brandon Thompson mused between firefights one morning. “Air-conditioning will be great. Cold water will be great. Sleep will be great.” “Yeah,” Specialist Christian Dupree interjected, “for about a month. New York Times: A Year at War: […]
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Getting Made The Scorsese Way
Twenty years after the release of GoodFellas, the good people behind it — Scorsese, Liotta, De Niro! — re-create the making of the truest, bloodiest, greatest gangster film of all time
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A Virtual Counter-Revolution
It is still too early to say that the internet has fragmented into “internets”, but there is a danger that it may splinter along geographical and commercial boundaries.
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The End of Men
Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what […]
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I […]