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...Year’s resolutions was to be more optimistic in 2007, but before I could even make it to February, I threw in the towel. The quick and final blow was a recent (Clinton-backed?) “allegation” that Senator Barack Obama is a Muslim...
...witness the iPhone launch from behind the curtain (or under the towel) is to see the controlling hand of Steve Jobs, for whom this is an almost mystically significant year. He's 52 years old. It's been 30 years since he founded Apple (with Stephen Wozniak), and 10 since he returned there after having been fired. In that decade Apple's stock has gone up more than 1,000%. Neither age nor success (nor cancer surgery in 2004) have significantly mellowed him, though some of the silver in his beard is creeping into his hair. All technologists believe their...
...Nouvel, 61. "We have technology now that lets us minimize our gestures; we can move forward into a kind of Darwinism of objects." Well, some of us can. Nouvel's designs, which include a shower system, faucets for bath and basin, a matte white bathroom sink and accessories from towel bars to soap dishes, aren't destined for just any member of the great unwashed: the faucet alone retails for $2,090. www.jado.com
...Nouvel, 61. "We have technology now that lets us minimize our gestures; we can move forward into a kind of Darwinism of objects." Well, some of us can. Nouvel's designs, which include a shower system, faucets for bath and basin, a matte white bathroom sink and accessories from towel bars to soap dishes, aren't destined for just any member of the great unwashed: the faucet alone retails for €1,600. www.jado.com
...firepower, or, it seems, the stomach to launch a battle for control of the Iraqi capital. Given the current situation on the ground, and absent an Iraqi initiative to turn matters around, it's likely that U.S. forces will continue to bleed and die until Bush tosses in the towel - or the new Democrat-controlled Congress forces...