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...senior Administration officials say chances of U.S. troops' playing a long-term reconstruction role are "zero." Some scoff at the idea of a peacekeeping force at all. "If the Afghans can't sort this out themselves, an outside force isn't going to help," says a senior Administration official. Yet he admits the tide is against isolationists at the moment. "Peacekeeping is the flavor du jour. Talking about it shows how suave and sophisticated you are," he says...
...Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons would have approved of the Lafayette Leopards football team. After watching Saturday’s game, I could almost hear him scoff with satisfaction, “Worst Team Ever...
...objective types (it helps if you haven't a dime to invest) have been fooled by the Big Board barbarians before, and while we were completely prepared to scoff knowingly at any Monday follow-up to Friday's misplaced giddiness, we weren't quite prepared to say it couldn't happen. Yes, it did seem that a sustained rally now, based as it would be on nothing at all, would make suckers of any who expected it to bridge the gap between now and THE RECOVERY, and what's more, the aformentioned recovery would be a lot better...
...everybody thinks Xybernaut is on to a sure thing, though. Over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, scientist Steven Schwartz and researcher Richard DeVaul scoff at the notion of wearables as a consumer product. "Why would you want to surf the Net or play a computer game while you walk around?" asks Schwartz, a genial 46-year-old who wears his skepticism lightly. "How would you survive crossing the street?" His argument against the MA-IV is that it simply takes a laptop computer and distributes its components around the body. The machine doesn't do anything...
...Bushies complain that enviros and most Democrats haven't bothered to wait for the release of the new proposal before dismissing it as a sop to Big Oil. They incessantly lambaste the Clinton Administration for neglecting the nation's long-term energy needs. And they scoff at any critic who suggests that the White House is too close to the energy sector...