The Devil and Deep Blue
Finally, the nightmare comes true, at least 150 years after it was foretold. Ever since the time of Babbage's adding machine, the forerunner of the pocket calculator, man has always expected to be beaten at his own game by his own creation, the machine.
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The big bully at the UN
The legislative branch of the US seems to be bent on translating the attitudes of those redoubtable ladies of the US foreign policy establishment, Jean Kirkpatrick and Madeleine Albright, of "toe the line, or else" into US policies towards the UN.
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