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The nineteenth century doesn't figure in our current discussion, although there would doubtless be much to be learned if we were to compare and contrast the whiskers of John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, and Abraham Lincoln.
And we all seek illusions, especially in the tech world. Everything in this new Utopia is a lot more fragile than it seems on the surface, as any ex-dotcommer will tell you. But that's what happens when you construct an environment for analog-minded humans made entirely of...
What JFK learned from the wall
Much of the wartime population has passed away, but Hiromitsu Yasumura learned the tale from village elders while still a child?and was ordered never to tell an outsider. Sitting in the village meeting hall, the lone building in what passes for Main Street, the orchid farmer, 46, and his...
After that 1995 attack, a long-simmering rage toward the U.S. presence exploded into vociferous activism, and Okinawa has never been the same. Victims formed support groups; students learned to rally. Over every incident big and small that followed, politicians have pelted U.S. forces with demands to impose curfews, change...