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...moderate and a reformer, Wahid came to office with high expectations as Indonesia's first democratically elected President. But his sheer orneriness was a fatal flaw; in less than two years, 22 ministers left his Cabinet. And though he inherited respect as a hereditary Muslim religious leader, Wahid was dangerously uninformed about the true level of his support. Toward the end, he shunned many advisers and retreated into the world of supernatural omens and spirits...
...Never mind that the majority of business-type servers run other companies' software, and were therefore never affected in the first place. Never mind that it was a sadly typical security flaw in Microsoft's server software that allowed Code Red to flourish. Note also that the million-plus people drawn to Microsoft's website by that patch included many thousands who didn't need it (the worm only hits Windows NT or 2000. Windows 95, 98 and ME are unaffected...
...doubt that the Macedonian military's tendency to rain down bombs and shells on villages occupied by the guerrillas will drive many Macedonian Albanians into the arms of the rebels. Yet the absence of any strong disincentive for the guerrillas to continue fighting may be the fatal flaw of NATO's strategy, which appears to be accelerating the slide to civil war, an outcome the alliance had desperately hoped to avoid - and which would inevitably drag NATO in to clean up the mess, but only after yet another embarrassing conflagration has exploded right under the noses...
...This is the fundamental flaw in the West's attitude to NATO expansion. On the one hand, they say Russia has nothing to fear from the alliance; on the other hand they say everyone is free to join but Russia is not. It doesn't take a super brain to suspect, then, that the alliance is directed against them. NATO has tried over the past few years to alleviate Russian concerns through various consultative structures, but that's done nothing to mediate the flaw in the NATO argument or Russian suspicion...
...Harvey “C-minus” Mansfield, long known for his rigorous grading, shocked the campus with a new grading trick this year. Voicing adamant aversion to grade inflation, a “glaring flaw in American education,” Mansfield announced at the beginning of the spring semester that he would assign two sets of grades to the students in Government 1061: “Modern Political Philosophy”--initial grades, centered around a C, would accurately reflect the quality of students’ work and compare them to their peers. The second...