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Wickrematunge could not accept that kind of thinking. Even a wartime government, he believed, ought to be held accountable to its citizens. Stories in the Sunday Leader raised questions about who benefited from military aircraft contracts, needled Sri Lankan Cabinet officials for extravagant trips abroad and, in one infamous exclusive, accused the Defense Minister of arranging false travel documents for a former LTTE leader who is now part of the government. The Defense Ministry has denied any involvement...
...rational. They can be. But whether they're rational or not really depends on how they interpret information. It depends on the amount of steroid in the system." For anyone trying to come to terms with the global economic slowdown and the financial-market ruin that caused it, that ought to be little comfort...
...Fitzsimmons and the College Board have neglected the fact that many students taking the SAT under this new policy will inevitably feel that, because there is no disincentive for taking the test repeatedly, they ought to take it until their scores can no longer possibly improve. For applicants to competitive colleges, scoring a 2300 at first attempt will cease to be a happy relief, and instead be viewed as the first step in a marathon of test taking until they reach the magic 2400. Many students will inevitably spend more time preparing for and taking the SAT than they...
...depth while offering screen sizes in the 100-in.-plus range. OLED TVs, using an amazing new display technology that draws little power but offers a huge array of colors, are now hovering around 21 in., which means that competitive sizes at competitive prices with plasma and LCDs ought to be available in another year...
While I know Home is still a work in progress, Sony ought to lighten up and give its users tools to build things, as the more adult-oriented virtual world Second Life has done. The past five years have been all about putting the users in control, which is especially smart in a place many people gather. To succeed, Sony needs to understand that an avatar's virtual Home ought to be his castle--not just Sony's mall...