HERE IS THE WOMAN who was hounded out of the Obama campaign for calling Hillary Clinton “a monster” in an Irish newspaper.
SAMANTHA POWER, who amazed the room at the TED conference last February when she outlined what seemed, at the time, something incredibly bold and fantastic: an Obama foreign policy–clear-eyed, profoundly moral, and realistic.
FOR ALL SORTS OF REASONS, I hope she is part of Obama’s State Department. Maybe as secretary? Is that role filled yet?
That is all.
1969, DALLAS, TX: The first ATM machine is installed. Standing for “AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE MACHINE,” the first ATM could receive deposits and dispense cash (though only in coins) and was roughly the size of a city block. Despite its name, it was not wholly automated: A single human controller was required to supervise and make manual notations in the customer’s bankbook. He would sit in a little dome atop the machine. However, this bank employee was instructed to wear a tinfoil suit and talk like a machine so as not to ruin the futuristic effect.
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