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...funding is a problem, steal money from the budget of insane sports we'll never be good at. Modern pentathlon? Ski jumping? Biathlon? What's the point? It's so much simpler for Americans to throw a little ball around than shoot stuff after skiing. Cede that to the Nords...
...English-speaking countries have been simplifying their spelling for centuries: Spain, France, Germany, Russia, Norway, Ireland, Indonesia and Japan, among others, have all instituted such reforms; Portugal in May amended its spelling to follow the simpler Brazilian rules. Since 1755, when the English language was standardized in Samuel Johnson's aptly named Dictionary of the English Language, many variant spellings have become widely accepted on both sides of the pond. In 1864, for instance, the U.S. government officially changed the spelling of words like centre and timbre to end in the variant -er; more recently, at the beginning...
...Ultimately, the truth may turn out to be much simpler, or perhaps even more convoluted than the most convoluted conspiracy theory. With Syria, you can never tell...
...sense of impotence of our effect, of our power to act in the world in a meaningful way? Are these women's stories a life affirmation to counteract the existential abyss that can sometimes fill our horizons in our time?" For Maureen Upfold, the message is simpler: Know who you are and where you came from, and don't waste a second being ashamed of what you find...
After the court hearing, McKinnon admitted his hacking activities had been "very misguided" and said he would have gladly settled for a U.K. trial, but the fact he didn't get one might have a simpler explanation than transatlantic collusion. In 2006, the U.K.'s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit - the one that arrested McKinnon in 2002 - was disbanded. Though there is pressure to rebuild a specialist e-crimes unit, mostly prompted by the soaring cost of cyber fraud, the U.K. government has so far failed to come up with funding. In short, says Jordan, "they don't take this...