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Once the weak light impulses reached their destination, the sender and receiver would compare elements of their decoded keys to make sure they were identical, Myers said. He said a tenet of quantum physics would make this comparison the essential factor that would make the quantum code key a successful encoding system...
President Clinton’s speech provoked a momentary stir—more a comparison of his style and that of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., though, than a serious discussion of the issues he raised. Teresa Heinz Kerry changed our focus, but I won’t pretend that her money, her Botox, and her almost laughably self-serious mien drew less attention than the substance, as such, of her Evita-like oration. John Kerry, with a salute and tough declarative prose, crossed the commander-in-chief threshold Thursday night and dominated the conversation for about the 30 minutes...
...frank comparison of classes, recalling both the senator’s own past rhetoric on the campaign trail and former president Bill Clinton’s sharper digs at the Bush tax cuts on Monday night, countered criticism of Kerry as an aristocratic New England liberal...
...must work hard to resist the Sopranos comparison. If the show has taught anything, it's that beneath the garish veneer of suburban New Jersey family life steams a sewer of betrayal. But the comparison is actually unfair--to the Soprano clan. Bad as he is, Tony would never pull something as bumbling--and psychosexually crude--as what Charles Kushner, a real estate impresario and one of the Democratic Party's most generous political donors, is alleged to have done to his sister...
...being murdered by their kin at an unprecedented rate. On the basis of case reports provided by police, court officials and doctors at Baghdad's forensics institute, the number of victims of honor killings in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in March 2003 may total in the hundreds. (By comparison, in neighboring Jordan, where women's-rights advocates have succeeded in bringing attention to the issue, activists report an average of 20 honor killings a year.) "This isn't just an issue about women. It's about the whole society," says Safia al-Souhail, a female Iraqi politician...