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...Still, Portugal's 2-0 dismantling of Turkey was an early warning the Portuguese are all about avenging their crushing upset to Greece in the 2004 final. Its defense, led by Real Madrid's Pepe, prefers to pass the ball out of its own box rather than boom long clears. In the middle of the park the petulant Deco kept demanding balls that by rights belonged to Christiano Ronaldo, who drew Turkish defenders like the moon does the sea. Here's a guy, who, with three opponents on him, doesn't even think about reversing the ball but instead decides...
...number of developers showed off applications that will be ready for the iPhone in the coming weeks and months. Sega, for instance, demoed an arcade game, Super Monkey Ball, whose fluid 3-D quality was on par with what one would find on, say, a Sony PSP. On the iPhone, users navigate by tilting the motion-sensitive device. Another application, which takes advantage of the phone's GPS, is a location-aware social network; fire up the app and you can see whether any friends or people in your contact list are nearby. "We make serendipity happen," said Loopt founder...
...USING THE TONGUE: Zohan: Flirts with a customer in the salon and licks off her earrings Jesus: Licks his bowling ball for luck...
...with America's ally the Shah of Iran under siege, President Jimmy Carter asked a former diplomat named George Ball to study the situation and recommend a course of action. Ball's chief qualification was that he, more than any other high-level U.S. official, had been right about Vietnam--from early on, he had warned it would be a quagmire. Ball accepted Carter's offer but refused to visit Iran. In the 1960s he had watched one colleague after another set off on fact-finding missions to Vietnam, and each returned convinced that America could...
Barack Obama should keep Ball in mind as he mulls John McCain's suggestion of a joint visit to Iraq. Ball understood something important: that when you take a guided tour, your tour guide decides what you see. In Iraq today, as in Vietnam back then, the tour guides are America's officers and diplomats on the ground. And in Iraq, as in Vietnam, they have an incentive to show good news--which isn't always the same as the truth...