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Cause and Effect

An Iraqi police lieutenant, who for obvious reasons asked to remain anonymous, confirmed to me the widespread rumors that a few [Basra] police officers are perpetrating many of the hundreds of assassinations – mostly...

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Hush!

“When he read,” said Augustine, “his eyes scanned the page and his heart sought out the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still. Anyone could approach him freely and guests...

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Sour Grapes

So Terry Pratchett says that JK Rowling being elevated at the expense of other writers, ie, him. Pratchett came along (quite by accident!) to my 18th birthday bash. He brought along a handy briefcase...

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So Long, and Thanks For All the Cash

Uzbekistan formally ordered the United States to leave an air base that has been a hub for operations in Afghanistan in protest over a predawn United Nations operation on Friday to spirit out refugees...

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Reshuffling

HP just announced it is to stop selling rebranded iPods. The ex-CEO, Fiorina, never really understood tech. A more bolshy HP is potentially trouble for Apple, seeing as how, thanks to its purchase of...

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The Game Which Administers an Enema

I noticed several thousand inbound hits from a Japanese web page that made very little sense. Then I ran it through bablefish. Now it makes even less sense, but apparently it describes the Korean...

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Machinations

Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division during the early phases of the war, is widely viewed as one of the Army’s most creative and competent generals … [he] recently learned of rumors that...