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...still warrant notice. Suggest that a woman ought to cook dinner because of some inherent ability, and you may end up eating a lonely meal of take-out, but what man would take offense at the assumption that he ought to be the one to mow the lawn and fix the plumbing...
...Middle East. The problem in Iraq is very grave. If the jihadists win there, I'm in trouble here. [Their attitude will be]: We've beaten the Russians in Afghanistan, we've beaten the Americans and the coalition in Iraq. There's nothing we cannot do. We can fix Southeast Asia too. There will be such a surge of confidence for all jihadists. The U.S. must be seen?if not to have prevailed or to have created a democratic Iraq?to at least to have denied the jihadists a victory. Because otherwise the consequences for America and for the world...
What is Washington doing to keep this from snowballing? Congress is working on a one-year patch that will cost $31 billion in lost revenues. But after the House approved such a fix last week, the G.O.P. pushed through $56 billion in tax cuts on capital gains and dividends. That set up a fight this week in the Senate, where a few moderate Republicans are siding with Democrats to keep those cuts from passing...
...Chase. His eclectic acting career includes many animated features, including roles on “Home Movies,” and “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.”Lisa Lampanelli:Two Harvard students walk into a bar. One student says to the bartender, “Fix me a drink befitting a Harvard man.” The bartender walks over to a U.S. senator seated at the end of the bar and whacks him off into a glass. The second Harvard student says, “Great! I haven’t had one of those...
Silicon Optix owns the fix. The firm, based in San Jose, Calif., has designed an advanced video-processing chip that cleans up video for all sorts of displays. The private company's secret sauce is its Realta chip, which enables real-time, pixel-by-pixel processing of HDTV, delivering Hollywood-quality video to consumers at a fraction of the cost. It's like having a "supercomputer on a chip," boasts Paul Russo, 62, Silicon Optix's fast-talking CEO. The Realta is truly industry changing because it's the first programmable video-chip processor. The video chips can be upgraded...