Word: complex
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Hmmm. An anthropologist, I guess, must be bemused to find that such a large, multi-ethnic, complex and contradictory country, after months of relentless and scandalously expensive politicking, found itself reduced to a choice between two white male baby boomers, sons of powerful politicians, dauphins from Harvard and Yale. A rather narrow band of culture represented there, one would think. At least Bill Bradley knew how to play basketball; at least John McCain's character was formed by the experience of war, and by years on the inside of a North Vietnamese prison. The great American diversity had labored...
...that's not very likely. The U.S. appears to be witnessing something richer and more varied than either New Economy enthusiasts or dotcom alarmists have envisioned: the rapid--if still painful and uneven--merging of the old and new economies. That's evident from deals as complex as America Online's proposed $120 billion acquisition of Time Warner (the corporate parent of this magazine) or as simple as the act of buying a Pokemon video game or a bedding set from K Mart's website, BlueLight.com "What we're seeing," says Garth Saloner, a professor of e-commerce at Stanford...
Atlas' attempts to show that he is not cowed by his subject sometimes take a prim, censorious tone. He mentions the feminists "who were offended, justifiably, by the way he [Bellow] depicted women in his novels." That "justifiably" skates over an extremely complex and contentious issue. Can anyone who knows Bellow's fiction, as Atlas manifestly does, really believe that the work would have been better without its politically incorrect characters...
...does. And so far as the Department of Justice is concerned, maybe a lot better. Its antitrust division spent the summer trying a complex--some argue convoluted--case against Visa USA and MasterCard International in the U.S. Southern District of New York, in Manhattan. The two-year-old suit alleges that the associations, which together control more than 75% of the credit-card market, have conspired to keep Americans frozen in a sort of mid-'80s dark age of consumer-payment mechanisms...
...Emag. Hessbruggen sold nearly half his firm to Britain's 3i, which helped him finance the technologies needed to get a series of new production lines onto the market. Now the company is the world leader in its niche of making space-saving vertical assembly lines for manufacturers of complex gadgets and automobile components. "Without 3i, we'd be a regional player at most," Hessbruggen says. "If you're looking for a solid financial partner, private-equity investors are the best alternative." But they're not for everyone. "People who choose to work with us don't just want...