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But as essential and transformative as software has become, it also has introduced a digital threat vector for many of the same actors who seek to attack democracies in the physical world.
The Mumbai attacks were transformative, because in them, unlike previous outrages in India, the rich were caught: not only Western visitors in the nation's magnificent financial capital but also Indian bankers, business owners and socialites.
In response to attacks calling for transformative change, President Mark Emmert has embraced reform, but has done so with little consideration of the wishes of member institutions and the NCAA's own regulatory guidelines.
Significantly, analysts say, both of those transformative deals took place after the 2001 terror attacks in the United States and amid the ensuing global downturn in air travel, while many United States airlines were forced into bankruptcy protection.
At the State Department she backed a policy known as transformative democracy, arguing that the cause of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was rooted in oppressive governments.
Civil rights attorney Connie Rice said she considered Bratton a transformative figure in the history of the LAPD, which was tarnished by the 1991 attack on black motorist Rodney King by four white police officers, leading to rioting the following year.
And in the United States, the attack on Pearl Harbor -- the only incident remotely comparable -- doesn't seem to have inspired anything similar, even though that surprise assault initiated one of the most traumatic and transformative decades in this nation's history.
Such attacks could complicate Mr. Ryan's vision of a united Republican Party running on his transformative vision for federal entitlements, claiming a mandate, then carrying out his plan with a Republican in the White House.
