Word: models
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...peace treaty 47 years ago, was fought less because Koreans themselves couldn't get along than because the West, Russia and China were jostling to expand their "spheres of influence." The end of the Cold War has opened new opportunities for the Koreans to contemplate reunification. But the German model of West absorbing East is unlikely to apply to two powerful states who have been on the verge of war for the past five decades to avoid precisely that scenario. And the end of the Cold War hasn't eliminated competition between the outside powers with a stake...
...some college kid's hard drive. And that's where the lawyers come in. Suits against Napster and MP3.com - the latter of which settled with several of the Big Five record companies last week - are rearguard actions, meant to slow the music business' evolution and milk its aging business model for a few billion more. The music industry may yet squash Napster with legalities, or force it to join forces with the old guard, as it did with MP3. But if the lawyers are tolling for Napster, the evidence they present - of what the Internet can do to a business...
...that the reform movement remains an insider's game, still intolerant of secularists, socialists or anyone ambivalent about the Islamic Revolution. Says Ibrahim Yazdi, head of the Iran Freedom Movement: "If we can create a democracy that is Iranianized and Islamicized, then this historical experiment can be a model for other countries...
...very chilling indeed. His feverish embrace of extreme individuality, free-market pursuit and constant self-improvement completely drowns out any inclination for people to think about others who are less fortunate. There is no real community, no downtime, no nurturing of the soul in Peters' business model--just workers hunched over a monitor, constantly "improving" themselves for the next level of business. Will embracing technology automatically make you a queen bee--or will you still be a drone? WILLIAM T. LAYHER Somerville, Mass...
...found Peters' references to "icon Woman," his new role model for professional women, offensive: "She is turned on by her work!" She is "deeply committed to her self-designed, do-it-from-anywhere-with-anybody 'career' path." As long as attitudes like these are perpetuated by highly paid futurists and prominent newsmagazines, the workplace will remain a ghetto for women. JEAN COSTELLO West Boylston, Mass...