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{ Monthly Archives }
Cheney, speaking after the Saudi bombings, on how to deal with Al Queda:
Vice President Dick Cheney said the United States must continue to aggressively pursue terrorists. “The only way to deal with this threat ultimately is to destroy it,” he said in a speech…. There’s no treaty can solve this problem. There’s no peace agreement, no policy of containment or deterrence that works to deal with this threat. We have to go find the terrorists.”
NYT Magazine argues against DVD extra features.
What’s most damaging to ”E.T.” is the way Spielberg has tampered with the movements and facial expressions of the eponymous alien itself. A team of computer wizards has labored mightily to make E.T. cuter — an undertaking that, as even those of us who admire the picture would have to agree, has a distinct coals-to-Newcastle quality.
I wonder his feeling on Pixonics’s backward-compatible high definition DVDs: pHD.
The NYT reporting on schools reopening in Baghdad, has this quote:
The principal, Bushra Cesar, had splurged on Friday and bought a satellite television dish. After a lifetime with only Iraqi state television to watch, she was so enthralled with the choice of foreign channels that she stayed up all night flipping from station to station. “I saw the world for the first time,” she said. “I saw where we were. I saw presidents and cities and people from everywhere! The whole world!”
The Economist writes:
When Germany needed to move troops to Afghanistan to take part in peacekeeping operations there, it had to lease transport planes from Ukraine. Last December, when reinforcements were called for, the Germans found that the Ukrainian planes were no longer available: they had been leased instead to Japanese companies to ship toys to Europe for Christmas.