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...reaches for fashion terms to make her point about how female ambition is thwarted: "A staple of movies, novels and TV: the hard-charging female executive in her Armani power suit and Manolo heels. She's smart, aggressive, successful--and most people can't wait to see her get her well-deserved comeuppance...
Meanwhile, even as Bush was praising Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as "a smart, tough, capable administrator," endangered Republicans like Kentucky Representative Anne Northup and Ohio Senator Mike DeWine have been joining the increasingly loud chorus of calls for the Secretary's ouster. And pressure for change is not coming only from the desperate and the wobbly. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison--a Bush loyalist well ahead in her bid for re-election--is expressing regret for her vote to authorize the invasion and is advocating partitioning Iraq along ethnic lines. "We have to step back and stop trying...
...title of "Session Restore." If you have a bunch of websites open, but unexpectedly have to shut down (maybe your computer crashes, or you're installing software that needs a restart), Firefox remembers the pages you had open and goes right back to them. Firefox also comes with a smart new spellchecker. If you're typing in an e-mail, blog entry or online comment form, it puts a little red line under dubious spellings. Right-click the word to see correctly spelled suggestions. Ironically, it just like using Microsoft Word. It worked in Hotmail, although it didn't work...
...Bush Administration's recent shift in strategy on the Iraq War - ending talk about "staying the course" and replacing it with a new emphasis on flexibility in response to changing conditions on the ground - may be a smart political tactic. But the implication of Bush's newfound candor, and his insistence that his decisions are being directed by advice from his generals on the ground, raises an unspoken question. If the generals are running the war and it is going so badly, shouldn't they share some of the blame...
...Abizaid has also been a smart politician. He has never challenged the assertion by senior civilian leaders that the war was being won. The Abu Ghraib scandal did not scar him. The fact that Osama Bin Laden is still at large in the middle of his region of responsibility never really lands on his shoulders...