Gaming Virtually in Today's World
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The Top Mistakes Why YOU Lose Business Time And Money And What To Do About It...
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How to Fix Errors on Your Personal Computer
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Software Windows XP Vista, iPod, Palm
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Russian Police Seize Computers At Local NGO
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Is America Rome? Plus Fukuyama vs. Huntington
I've been reading books on the Fate of America -- pretty bleak if you believe the authors -- and by far the best of the bunch is Cullen Murphy's "Are We Rome?" He's yet another one of those people who makes me want to be a writer when I grow up. He's also sensible, and doesn't take the Rome/America parallels too far. (No one, for example, should draw any conclusions from the fact that I no longer wear anything other than a toga.)
Here's the geopolitical question of the day (and your answers may help me with an upcoming Outlook story): Which country (or countries, or regional alliances, etc.) will be most dominant in 50 years? America is the lone superpower in 2007. This is our "unipolar moment." How long will it last? What happens next? Your thoughts, please. [We'll then link back to this item in 2057!!]
To help get you in the big-picture frame of mind, I'm pasting in the top of a story I wrote in the Post magazine in December 2001, about the debate between Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington.
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THE CLASH: Two Professors, Two Academic Theories, One Big Difference...
By J.A. (Dec. 16, 2001)
Not so many years ago, the world made a lot more sense.
At the very least you could pretend to understand it. This illusion of comprehensibility was a fringe benefit of the Cold War. Every international skirmish could be explained as part of the epic struggle between democracy (or 'the free world,' as we put it) and the Marxist-Leninist dictatorship of the proletariat ('the godless Commies').
The prospect of thermonuclear war had a way of clarifying the mind; anyone seeking a framework for thinking about the destiny of humankind could start with, at one extreme, Armageddon. The United States and the Soviet Union enforced their national security with a wonderfully acronymed strategy called Mutual Assured Destruction. The academics described this world as 'bipolar.' There was a method to the madness.
Then the unthinkable happened: One side gave up without anyone firing a shot.The theorists had to scramble in a suddenly unipolar (multipolar?) environment. Things were flying apart, breaking up, disintegrating. Two theories-dramatic, bombastic and immediately controversial-emerged from the convoluted mass of academic jabber.
The first idea was triumphalist. It came from an obscure young Washington think tank dweller named Francis Fukuyama. He called his thesis 'The End of History,' and although that sounded apocalyptic, he was attempting to deliver good news. Fukuyama argued that the historical process that had seen the rise of feudalism, monarchism, communism, fascism and various other isms had come to its conclusion. Democracy and free markets-the core values of Western civilization-had proved victorious over all competing systems. There was no better way to organize human affairs. Game over.But there was this other idea. It was darker. Indeed it sounded like a medieval nightmare. The theorist was a Harvard professor named Samuel P. Huntington -- Fukuyama's former teacher, as it happens. Huntington summed up his theory in a dramatic phrase: 'The Clash of Civilizations.'
The Huntington thesis mocked the feel-good notions of the Fukuyama camp. Huntington saw a world of tribes. Tribalism was increasing. Ancient hatreds were rising to the surface. In Huntington's world there was little danger
Achenblog to Take Over Washington Post Radio Studio?
The WaPo radio studio is, no kidding, only five steps from my desk. The radio station goes off the air in just a few weeks and I'm going to snap up the space faster than a frog can tongue-snag a dragonfly.
Already I use the radio studio covertly for private meetings, phone calls, and naps. It's fantastic for a private conversation about a sensitive subject. Because the room is soundproof, you don't have to worry about anyone overhearing, unless, of course, you are accidentally On The Air. I hate it when my confidences are inadvertantly broadcast across the entire metropolitan area. And let's not even get into the snoring. Yeah, that was me. Sorry.
In any case, it's the best office, potentially, in the entire newsroom, and a huge improvement from my current soulless, drab, spirit-crushing cubicle. The studio has a TV monitor that is currently tuned to cable news; I'll reset that to ESPN. There are several excellent swiveling chairs. I'll keep the consoles with all the buttons, just because they're fun to play with (in case I get a chest cold, it'll be nice to have the "Cough" button handy).
The microphone booms can be used, if necessary, for drying wet swimsuits or hanging a tuxedo fresh from the cleaner. Obviously I'll need to put up some black-light posters (heavy on the Frazetta) [like this image of my editors attempting to trim one of my stories], hang some dangling beads at the entrance, and add a bean-bag chair, a kick-butt sound system, a Lava Lamp and a beer fridge.
But no computer. I might even rip out all the phones. I don't want my new office to remind me too much of work.
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I like this Jack Shafer column on already-chewed news (another example of which, by the way, was the Tuesday morning headline about Gonzales resigning -- news that broke 24 hours earlier):
"Blessed with insomnia, I rejoice when I wake up at 12:30 a.m. because I know that the complete Page Ones for the New York Times and the Washington Post will be awaiting me when I sneak downstairs.
"I noodle around on those pages, check ESPN.com for the baseball scores and Associated Press write-up of that night's Detroit Tigers game, flip over to LATimes.com for the left coast's take on events, and after saying goodnight to the BBC, the Washington Times, BoingBoing, the Guardian, McClatchyDC.com, and a couple of blogs, I tiptoe back to bed."
One quibble: He writes, "Newspapers once had a one-way relationship with their Web sites, shoveling content to their dot-com versions while rarely accepting Web-produced stories. That's a thing of the past now, as tons of quality Web content ends up in print." Tons? I don't know. I think "reverse publishing" has yet to be fully embraced. We're evolving in that direction, but possibly too slowly.
Speaking of websites to check: I'm probably going to add a blogroll at some point (I've been saying this forever, I know) and am eager to hear suggestions. Bill Powers recently pointed out a favorite aggregator, and it's one I've always liked, too: Arts & Letters Daily. Today we see this take-out from New York magazine about Matt Drudge. (A companion piece, sort of, to the excellent story by Joel Sappell in The Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago, which I quoted from in my page views article.)
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Here's a blog that makes an interesting point about DC schools.
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"In all domains, men were significantly more risk taking than women."
Judge dismisses 2 students' privacy lawsuit over computer breaches at Ohio University
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Federal Judge Orders Wal-Mart to Offer Health Insurance to Workers' Stepchildren
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Recruiters List the Resume Essentials for GC Wannabes
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Umbrella Rulings Can't Cover All Data
Despite rulings to the contrary, some electronic data exists in a state that is not easily captured for production, argues attorney Tom Allman. And that's the case for RAM and instant message logs where a party has not elected to routinely store it.
Star Litigator Faces $5M Malpractice Claim Over Case Taken as a Favor to Judge
Washington, D.C., litigator Michele Roberts is seemingly infallible in front of a jury, but there is one case she has not been able to win. What began nearly six years ago as a simple matter she agreed to handle as a favor to a federal judge has given rise to a $5 million legal malpractice claim. Vaughn Stebbins, grandson of the late U.S. District Court Judge William Bryant, claims Roberts botched his chance to recover damages for injuries he received after being shot nine times by a D.C. police officer.
N.Y. Judge: Individual Notice Not Needed for Huge Class in MetLife Suit
The more than 10 million members in a class action suit filed against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company do not need to be contacted individually to be informed that there is a class action proceeding, that they are a member of the class, or that they have the right to "opt out," a New York state judge has held. While the judge said that a "random sample" of class members should be notified by mail, the rest can be notified through publication in and the .
L.A. Partner's Departure Is Latest Blow for Mayer Brown
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Los Angeles office took another hit this week when longtime corporate partner Kenneth Kohler took off for Morrison & Foerster. James Tancula, Mayer Brown's leader in L.A., acknowledged that the firm's public de-equitization of 45 partners in March could have played a role in some recent departures. But he warned not to write off the L.A. office yet, saying the firm will announce next week the arrival of two Holland & Knight lawyers to beef up its dwindling real estate practice.
Spector Appoints New Lead Attorney
San Francisco attorney Dennis Riordan has come in to Phil Spector's murder trial to handle jury instruction arguments. Spector's wife says Riordan was hired as "chief counsel" to replace Bruce Cutler, who bowed out at Spector's request. On Wednesday it was decided that jurors in the trial will have only one question to decide in their deliberations: Is Spector guilty or innocent of second-degree murder? Both the prosecution and defense agreed that the legal definitions of lesser crimes do not fit this case.
Yes, They Charge More: They're Experts
Last week, reported that a select group of New York lawyers had pushed hourly billing rates past the $1,000 mark. Some of the experts tapped in high-stakes patent litigation may wonder what took them so long. Thanks to the prospect of nine-figure verdicts, it's become a buyer's market for IP experts, with sought-after specialists commanding up to $10,000 a day, some lawyers say.
Judge: Owner of Posh Penthouse Must Honor Bride's Wedding Contract
In June, a popular Manhattan penthouse venue that has hosted a "Sex and the City" shoot and the wedding of comedian Jerry Seinfeld informed nine brides that it was backing out of contracts because using the premises for weddings violated zoning laws. Now a judge has handed one of those brides a legal victory, granting her request for specific performance of her contract and finding that Sky Studios was using the zoning defense as a "sword" for personal gain rather than as a "shield" for public good.
Olympic Park Guard Jewell's Death Leaves Unresolved Defamation Suit
Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered the deadly bomb under a park bench during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, died Wednesday at 44. His death -- reportedly from kidney problems -- leaves unresolved a 10-year-old libel suit against the stemming from coverage of the investigation that named Jewell as the focus in unsourced reports. Jewell's longtime attorney, L. Lin Wood Jr., settled separate defamation litigation on Jewell's behalf with NBC, CNN and others.
Freshfields Transfers Five Lawyers to Growing New York Office
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has relocated two partners and three associates to its New York office as it moves to expand its U.S. practice. The U.K. firm houses around 100 lawyers in the U.S., almost 20 of whom are partners. Freshfields U.S. managing partner Brian Rance said the new moves are "a reaction to client demand. The volume of work has outstripped the capacity we had at our disposal." So far, Freshfields has had a modest growth strategy in the U.S.
Criminal Lawyer Sanctioned Over Repeated Failures to Appear
Marc D'Arienzo apparently has a propensity for not showing up in court for spurious reasons. It got him disciplined in 1999, and in the past year, it's hit him in the pocketbook. A Somerset County judge fined the New Jersey solo $1,000 on Friday for failing to appear at six scheduled court hearings in the case of Shaheem Young, who is charged with first-degree armed robbery. Superior Court Judge Robert Reed says D'Arienzo's poor attendance suggests he has compromised his client's interests.
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