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...President Bush once famously told Senator Joe Biden, "I don't do nuance." But the struggle against Islamic radicalism is a festival of nuance. It is not quite a war, and it doesn't yield easily to simple notions of good and evil, friend and foe. We need the limited cooperation we get from the Pakistanis, and we certainly need Saudi oil. Even those, like Graham, who see the Saudis as the root of the problem, are calling for little more than a public statement of the facts-in the hope that the Saudis will be shamed into modifying their...
...Crimson will head to Providence, R.I. to face ECAC foe Brown on Saturday before hosting the Bears at Bright Hockey Center on Sunday...
...Friend Turns Foe A group once backed by Pakistan's President is now working to undo...
Google's most enigmatic foe isn't a search engine at all. It's a bookstore. In October Amazon debuted a service it calls Search Inside the Book that's both simple in conception and staggering in its implications. Amazon scanned every page of 120,000 books into a database, and it now lets customers search the books' complete contents online. In one stroke, Amazon made a new and immensely valuable kind of information available on the Web. Zenodotus would be livid with envy. "I would compare it to the invention of the encyclopedia," says Joel Mokyr, professor of economics...
...squad back over the .500 mark yet again, and it marked the second solid effort in as many games against a ranked opponent. But no matter where the Tigers stand in the rankings—usually towards the bottom—the team always manages to prove a troublesome foe for the Crimson...