[lbo-talk] How do you measure success

[joanna]

*DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA*
*Surging past the gates of hell*
By Tom Engelhardt

Sometimes, numbers can strip human beings of just about everything that 
makes us what we are. Numbers can silence pain, erase love, obliterate 
emotion, and blur individuality. But sometimes numbers can also tell a 
necessary story in ways nothing else can.

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF29Ak01.html