Word: comparison
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...version of “My Love” also includes a one-and-half-minute introduction; as the full clip clocks in at some six minutes, both the visuals and the music start to lose their hold before long, due to their repetitive nature. Especially in purely visceral comparison with “Sexy Back”—a video featuring an intricate cat-and-mouse spy game—“My Love” is rather disappointing, lacking the thrilling plot line or steamy make-out scenes. And yet, nonetheless, Timberlake has managed...
...division that had once seemed hard and fast withered away in 1989, and the old links and shared experiences that bind Europe together were revealed once more. That process, to be sure, was not always painless - the long war of the Yugoslav succession saw to that - but in comparison to the sadness and division after World War II, Europe is now in a state of grace, peaceful and united. It is a lucky continent, a place in which horrors such as those that took place in Budapest 50 years ago now seem scarcely conceivable. But they happened - and in parts...
...That comparison obviously looks plain silly, now, so instead we are left with Vietnam - albeit different interpretations of Vietnam. As Professor Juan Cole points out, Bush is probably relying on a hawkish view that while the Tet Offensive was a major military defeat for the Viet Cong, the spike of violence it brought may have struck a crippling political blow at the American public's will to fight the war. As Cole notes, the irony is that the upside of Tet may not be the first thing that comes to mind for Americans when their President compares Iraq to Vietnam...
...disappointed that we don’t have [a] license,” said Sukijthamapan of the difficulty her restaurant faces without the license. “We [are] below the other two Thai restaurants,” she added, referring to the business her restaurant received in comparison to 9 Tastes and Spice. While the CLC does not require the petition, Sukijthamapan said that she is asking customers to sign it in a show support, at her lawyer’s recommendation. Many of those customers agreed that the laws preventing Harvard Square businesses from selling beer, wine...
...CNBC pundit Jim Cramer scoffs at start-ups like Farecast as sizzle without substance. "It's like, so what? I could do that company," he says. Among Farecast's formidable Web 2.0 competitors is Kayak.com another rapidly growing travel search site with an even more muscular fare-comparison tool...