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• only man to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Mr. Olympia title
• only man to win Mr. Olympia uncontestd
• nicknamed "the Myth" for his massive and unbelievable proportioned body

Now 53, he still lives in Chicago, where he's a member of the Chicago Police Department and a single parent raising son Sergio Jr., 10, and daughter Julia, six. This year he will complete his 19th year with the police department. His rank is patrolman, and yes, he has to have every part of his uniform specially made except for the shoes. "

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"He took seriously his ability to charm and coax people and do exactly what he wanted," Mr. Zarem said. "He knew 25 years ago where he was going."

Mr. Butler, who still keeps in touch with Mr. Schwarzenegger, put it another way. "Arnold is one of the most political people I've ever met," Mr. Butler said. "Everything he does is political. He has an uncanny ability to go to a meeting, get into an elevator, sit down with people in a restaurant, and immediately assess their strengths and weakness. He manipulates."

Meta: title very tabloidish, Times more subtle, first "hard" article hints at a little dirt

Maureen Dowd: bugs of "globalization" revealed by electrical system

Without a blow-dryer, the usually sleek CNN anchor Paula Zahn was relegated to bedhead waves

Residents of Iraq and India, interviewed on television, seemed shocked to learn that the most technologically advanced nation had an electrical support system so rickety it is "third world

It was disturbing that the experts were having so much trouble figuring out what happened, resorting to mumbo jumbo about "forensic analyses" and "cascading outages" while lapsing into border bashing about which country's lightning or power surges were to blame.

Review: Rebecca Blood: The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice for Creating and Maintaining Your Blog

Thesis: Authentic Weblogs are unique/valuable, not boring or commonplace

"If you allow yourself to begin posting entries based on what you think someone else wants you to write," she warns, "you are missing the point of having a weblog."

1. Weblogs build better writers
2. Weblogs build self-awareness
3. Weblogs build critical thinkers
4. Weblogs build reputations
5. Weblogs build connected businesses -- businesses that efficiently disseminate internal information

4 Purposes: most are inward focused

1. self-expression
2. keeping in touch with family and friends
3. information sharing
4. reputation-building

Review Turnoffs: "It does not often occur to [her] that.." "she has no interest in.." (Style)

Xanadu Structure

We greatly need a general structure to represent all forms of interconnection and structure, and changes in both content and structure; and to visualize and re-use variants and alternatives, comparing them in context in order to understand and choose.

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In paradigm conflict and religious conflict, there can be no hope of doctrinal victory; the best we can seek is for both sides to understand each other fully and cordially.

Paul Snively: Copying of content is anathema to Nelson's worldview becauseit makes it effectively impossible to maintain the royalty structure that he envisions.

The thorny issues that Nelson and his group had been tackling are precisely the ones he lists: if all referring to other content is by transclusion, what tools should we/could we construct to support, e.g. dissent? Collaboration? Creation or examination of revisions? Compare-and-contrast?

Far from being off the radar, these questions are indeed most pertinent in a forum that, in recent history, has wondered aloud how to protect the copyright rights of web-based content creators/publishers and how to protect the reputation ("brand" is the word that typically gets abused to discuss this concern) of content creators/publishers from middlemen in the chain of communication, e.g. Third Voice. Nelson's assertion since the 1960's has been that a new kind of storage medium, complete with new indexing and retrieval algorithms, lies at the heart of answering these difficult questions. He's held these views consistently for at least thirty years and, now that we have access to code, we can see that he and his colleagues had not merely been engaging in idle philosophical talk.

I do think Nelson also believes that a world where anyone could become a properly-compensated publisher would be a great boon to the growth of human thought.