Word: powers
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...easy to forget that newness is uncomfortable. Beyond the classic studies of a liberal-arts university, at the rough unfinished edges of disciplines and fields, there is space for both using and misusing the power that comes from knowing first...
What is new is difficult. It has not yet taken full shape; it is not yet trustworthy, but it is extremely powerful. Splitting the atom, discovering radiation, Keynesian economics, postructuralism, relativity and now computerization: all are the results of great social debate and change, and all have their share of ugliness. Major shifts in human thought are not negotiated without some who recognize power in the new--the democratic, the economic, the wired--and seek to exploit...
...proper counter-argument recognizes that the new is precisely the place where careful study can make the most difference. If knowledge is power, then wider dissemination of knowledge is the only counter to misuse. We need ways to understand and parse newness, not to condemn it out of hand...
...gives us] a lot more power," says Daniel S. Brody '71, assistant dean for financial management at the Kennedy School of Government, who is also a Crimson editor. "But I wouldn't mind if it was only 28 digits...
...time when the military and economic risks make it impractical for China to respond with force," says Dowell. Nonetheless, domestic political concerns leave Beijing unable to tolerate any formalization of Taiwan's de facto independence, which is why the Chinese military has been steadily expanding its naval and air power. While full-blown hostilities may be some way off, the Cold War across the Taiwan Strait is right back on the front burner...