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...timetables for U.S. withdrawal, Reid's comments are a reminder that they are not yet ready to take such a hard line in public. The public may think Iraq is a mistake and a fiasco; but it may not be ready to bug out. Finally, the Democrats may be betting that a surge by Bush is inevitable anyway, so why not get on board now, and take away any suggestion that they are against it. But this probably won't be the last we hear from Reid on troop levels. My bet is that Reid will have some strings...
...story in computer games this year was HOW TO BLOW A HUGE LEAD, by Sony. Its PlayStation 2 was the champ in the last round of the console wars. This time Sony bet on a chip called the Cell and a disc format called Blu-ray. They're probably awesome, but how would anybody know? The PS3 is hideously expensive--it goes for up to $600--and Sony manufactured only a piddling few hundred thousand for the U.S., fewer for Japan. Plus it's hard to write games for; the launch titles were lame. You know you're in trouble...
Matsuzaka isn’t even a safe bet. Many Japanese players are less of a force on this side of the Pacific. Matsuzaka may become synonymous with the international mega-flop and could destroy the American market for Japanese players. No general manager would risk paying significant money for another export. Closing the door between Japan and America would be a big step back from the increased internationalization of recent years, which culminated in the celebrated March 2006 World Baseball Classic...
...true: you don’t need hard work, beauty, or even talent to make it big. And honestly, isn’t that the most democratic thing we’ve heard in years? Is that the American Promise? Is that Harvard’s Promise? You bet it is. 3. “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)” by Cobra Starship. Snakes on a Plane is probably the most revolutionary movie of our generation to date. I mean, it was basically an internet joke that went way out of control. And, to tell...
...didn't know Elizabeth Bolden, who died quietly on Monday in a Memphis nursing home. But I bet she had some stories. If you figure that every week brings something to remember, she'd have had more than 6,000 tales to tell by the time she passed away at the age of 116, the oldest person on earth. She had lived in three different centuries, a witness to the fortunes and follies of five generations. She got to see Halley's comet pass by - twice...