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...though, Roberts seems to have best kept his eye on the bigger picture. There's a lot more going on in this case than whether the law should allow kids at school to talk about sucking on a bong, and the chief puts his finger on it when he responds to Stevens' dissent by explaining that political speech is just not an issue here...
...with America's oldest and greatest social divide. Nancy Gibbs' powerful story about Kennedy's Catholicism shows the discrimination he faced and the boldness with which he triumphed over it. Kennedy ultimately made a practical argument against prejudice. "While this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed," he said in a speech to the conservative Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, "in other years it has been--and may someday be again--a Jew or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist ... Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow...
...That blame game won't work now. After the second attack on the shrine on June 13, Iraqis can point the finger at none but themselves; it is their security forces who are responsible for the shrine?s protection, and they failed miserably. Some of them may even have colluded with the bombers...
Milan looks like a large, expensive toy--or maybe a dedicated virtual finger-painting workstation--but Microsoft and its partners have been very shrewd about coming up with practical applications. For example, place a Bluetooth-enabled digital camera on the tabletop. Milan recognizes the camera, wirelessly sucks out your photos and displays them on the tabletop in a stack. Anybody sitting around the table can then pass the photos around and even stretch and shrink them, iPhone-style. Or imagine the Milan as a restaurant table: diners sort through a tabletop menu, dragging and dropping appetizers and entrées, swapping...
Touch screens are unlikely to stop there. They're just too useful. Once you use an iPhone, you'll get twitchy fingers. You'll wonder why you can't swipe your finger across your laptop screen to jump backward and forward in your browser. The touchability exposes the mouse as the crude finger substitute that it really is. Look at the success of Nintendo's Wii, which works on the same principle, converting physical movements into virtual ones. People are ready to break the fourth wall of computing and put their fingers directly on the data. This is manual-free...