The real Morse led a sober existence as chairman of Lloyds Bank from 1977 to 1993.

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Because I think as both Maina the professor have explained, it suggests a point in history rather than a point in real time now, and I think belies the existence of nations and states and reasonably modern political systems.

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But as technology made possible large virtual arenas like Second Life or World of Warcraft, an online game with millions of players, so the overlap between cyberspace and real human existence began to grow.

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While the existence of indexed securities does reduce the potency of the financial market transmission channels, these instruments meet a real investment need and can be easily duplicated through interest rates swaps.

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"To bury our head in the sand and act like Twitter (and who knows what else comes into existence next month or five years from now?) isn't increasingly becoming the source of what informs people in real-time is ridiculous, " he wrote.

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