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This follows Cambodia's history of: 1) massive genocide; 2) a decade-long civil war; and 3) billions of dollars in foreign aid to restore democracy, which now seem to have been wasted.
A NYT front-pager warns that the social ill effects of fearing the Y2K problem--such as bank runs, hoarding of food and gas, fires caused by newly acquired wood stoves and a rise in gun violence accompanying the upsurge in gun sales to those fearing post-millennial-bug civil unrest--could end up being much worse than any pure outcome of the problem itself, especially since the actual problem is being attacked with billions of dollars of remediation.
Big business has wagered hundreds of billions of dollars on the development of high-tech, low-cost media technology--broadband services, satellites, encryption technology, miniaturized computers and communications devices, you name it--that is largely impervious to the Bennetts and Gores of this world.
Since Michael Dell has been a great manager and has made billions of dollars, corporations have imagined that he's been a great manager because he's made billions of dollars.
I mean, the United States has been borrowing tens of billions of dollars every month from foreign investors for so long that I thought it was just something everyone--with the exception of Pat Buchanan and people looking for reasons to bash China--accepted.