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...more than four years at an average of 4.2% growth, and the Board saw that trend continuing in 2000. Now the rest of the world is picking up steam. The pace is by no means even, of course. Some regions, like Latin America, are up against forces they cannot control; others, like Japan, are wallowing in the economic trough of the past. The overall outlook is heady. But only the deft will prevail in this supercharged economy. More than ever, even the most nimble are ultimately at the mercy of American shareholders, who could wake up one morning soon...
With history as our guide, we can expect that the government will use this event to push through legislation authorizing digital wiretapping without court orders, to outlaw encryption that the government cannot crack and to track the location of cell-phone users without their knowledge. They'll push laws that eliminate individual rights in exchange for more government "protection" against cybercrime...
Because Chatwin knew everyone, and because most of them are still alive, Bruce Chatwin becomes at times a group portrait of an entire world--sophisticated, cutting and articulate--that cannot stop talking, fascinated, about the Cubist harlequin who ran on self-delight. "He was constantly gyrating on his own axis," his patient and devoted wife Elizabeth said, "to cause a sensation, to find a sensation." Another friend noted, "I have seldom met a human being who exudes so much sex appeal with so comparatively little niceness...
Then, in her 40s, Gertrude awakens to the charms of her husband's younger brother, himself more than a decade her senior. Their courtship is protracted and passionate. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet upbraids Gertrude for her infidelity: "You cannot call it love, for at your age/The heyday in the blood is tame." That, Updike's novel suggests, shows how much Hamlet knew...
...lectures, there is such a flow of ideas that a person's cerebral cortex just shuts down," he explains. "The students' brains are overwhelmed. They simply cannot absorb any more stimulation...