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...trouble with having to push down on the entire 3.2-inch screen every time you type a letter or confirm a menu choice is that it slows you down. The idea behind the clickable screen is that it will minimize errors by getting you to think before you press. Instead, it took much of the fun out of using the device. While some people complain that the iPhone's touchscreen is a little too slick and imprecise - of the three devices, I tend to make the most typos with the iPhone - at least it's fast. And while...
...they face discrimination from official policies, and recent security measures throughout the country have heightened the sense of a minority under siege in the majority Sinhalese state. Upwards of 300,000 people may be displaced by the latest combat, though no journalists can enter the conflict zone to confirm this. Whatever the outcome of this campaign, the work of accounting for both sides' misdeeds and of repatching Sri Lanka's tattered society must begin. There, as elsewhere, peace cannot be won by military bravado alone...
...looked at 400 Jack the Ripper letters in the National Archive in London. Cornwell was trying to confirm that most of these letters were by Walter Sickert,” Driesse said...
...reaction among gay rights advocates to their recent electoral setback is damaging in that it serves to confirm their opponents’ fears that the movement is positively anti-democratic. In addition to being in poor taste, the aggressive reaction to Prop 8 will ultimately prove self-destructive. As recent history has shown us, popular opinion on the gay marriage front is fluctuating, and it will likely be a central issue in the next election as gay rights supporters seek to overturn marriage bans...
...gonna write you a check for $40 million, that's who I am." - When asked to confirm his identity during his purchase, via email, of a Gulfstream V Jet (Esquire...