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...search engine to the toolbar, Firefox directs you to a page that only someone with a few years of college computer science classes would understand. Microsoft, on the other hand, gives you a clear three-step instruction. In seconds, I added Froogle, Google's web-shopping comparison site, to IE7's list of search engines...
...match the fight on the ground in Iraq. "U.S. forces have never been defeated in a fight at platoon level or above and we never will," he told a military group last month. He's still missing the point, says one frustrated officer: "It's an irrelevant comparison because those types of encounters are rare or nonexistent in Iraq." Says another officer: "We're not fighting the Big Red Soviet Army here, we're dealing with hit-and-run guerrilla warfare...
...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...