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...platform. You could at least make a plausible case that Flash and multitasking were too resource-intensive (and thus battery-draining) for mobile-phone usage, just as you could make the case that a phone operating system needed more security scrutiny for third-party apps. But these arguments no longer make sense when you're talking about a computing platform with 10 hours of battery life, a blisteringly fast CPU and ambitions to replace your laptop. It's fine for Apple to be secretive when it talks about the future of its products. But when Apple talks about the present...
Students no longer had an extra weekend to meet with advisors, peruse the Q Guide, and order books on Amazon.com...
Watch out, world. They are coming after you, on skeleton sleds, speed skates and, oh yeah, while wielding big old curling brooms. They used to be the nice guys (and gals); now they'd rather leave you buried in the snow on a ski trail. They will no longer be embarrassed...
Such lack of output is no longer acceptable. "They were reasonably pathetic performances," says Roger Jackson, a 1964 Olympic rowing gold medalist and CEO of Own the Podium, an organization that has received about $109 million in government and private funds over the past five years to develop athletes for the Vancouver Olympics. "I can tell you that we're going to have several gold medals this year," he says. "I guarantee it." Whoa. Is a Canadian really issuing a freewheeling, Joe Namath-style guarantee? "It's a nice word, isn't it?" says Jackson...
...regime's losing control of the streets. Iconic leaders such as Karroubi, Khatami and Mousavi are perhaps less dangerous to the government free than they would be if imprisoned, because their movement's activities are so curtailed and many of their aides and allies are in jail. Moreover, the longer the protests have continued in the face of harsh repression, the more demonstrations have turned violent and seen their ire directed not just at the current government but toward the Islamic system itself. Not only does this make it easier for the state to delegitimize the protesters as agents...