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...horizon in every direction. Other companies simply cannot match Apple's skill in constructing media pipelines for its products. The iPad is launching into the teeth of a storm of competition: there's a tablet shipping this month called (unfortunately) the JooJoo that is physically the iPad's rival, and Sony, Dell, Acer, Asus, Lenovo and (undaunted) Microsoft are all said to have next-gen tablets in the works, to say nothing of the inevitable swarm of Chinese knockoffs. But nobody anywhere does delivery like Apple, and a tablet is only as good as the stuff...
...fight that could have dire consequences for the country's security situation. Last week's media reports hailing Iyad Allawi as the election victor were a little premature: the former U.S.-installed Prime Minister's secular nationalist slate may have finished narrowly ahead of its nearest rival, but its share of the vote translates into only 91 seats in the 325-seat legislature, where 163 seats is the magic number needed to form a government. And while Allawi's first-place finish in the poll theoretically puts him in the pole position to build a coalition government, the odds against...
This weekend, Vloka led her team to a fifth place finish at the NCAA Championships at Harvard’s Gordon track, with a 15-13 victory in the individual finals over long time rival, Beijing bronze medalist, and Duke sophomore Becca Ward...
...women’s squad, meanwhile, made the short trip to the waters of Bostonian rival Tufts to participate in the 31st Women’s Duplin Trophy team race. Since the squad was one sailor short, the Crimson teamed up with another local foe, Boston University, to take home fifth place in the team standings...
...came away with a promise that the U.S. would hasten delivery of F-16 fighter aircraft, helicopter gunships and unmanned reconnaissance drone aircraft. But U.S. officials stopped short of agreeing to a key Pakistani demand: that the U.S. recognize Pakistan as a nuclear power, giving it parity with its rival India, which secured a similar accord from the Bush Administration. Washington officials were reluctant to comply because of Pakistan's having secretly sold nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya...