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Older (age 15 and up), more hard-core gamers will want that Xbox. The machine is Microsoft's beachhead in the console wars, and I predict it will be a big success, even though it costs 50% more. It's a gorgeous piece of equipment that includes an internal hard drive (so it can respond at blink-of-the-eye speeds to your every command). While Microsoft offers a few child-friendly titles, including Shrek, it's the adult-oriented fare that will distinguish this machine. I was particularly enamored of a surfing simulator, Transworld Surf...
...three plot twists too many, and when he does get to something of a surprise conclusion, everybody has stopped caring. It is also irritating that many of the complications that transpire in the end can only happen because Moore and his crew suddenly and completely lose the ability to predict the consequences of their actions and start acting like complete amateurs, (hmm, I just tricked a brutal gangster; let me go hang out for a while in the first place he’s going to look for me!). Finally, the movie is just too slow—it?...
Lawmakers haven't even bothered to disguise the fact that much of what they are doing in the name of economic stimulus amounts to posturing. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill called it "show business," and all sides predict that much of what passed will be jettisoned when the bill is reconciled with a yet-to-be-drafted Senate version. "We're mostly kind of letting off some steam," a top aide to the House Republican leadership acknowledged after last week's vote...
MIND MELD Comprehensive terrorist-profiling databases that store information from several agencies, plus programs that analyze the data to figure out relationships between people or events, recognize behavior patterns, predict potential terrorist attacks and project hypothetical events...
...chief complaints leveled at Rumsfeld and the Pentagon's strategists is that they failed to predict or prepare for the Taliban's ability to withstand an aerial assault. Western and Pakistani military officials openly hint that an American ground force may be required to remove the Taliban and install a successor government. Military commanders are exploring the idea of grabbing territory inside Afghanistan to use as a staging area for hit-and-run attacks against al-Qaeda. Seizing and holding an airstrip would involve as many as 15,000 troops, and there's little chance of inserting them before spring...