In other news...

American efficiency in Iraq (from NYTimes)

[The] discovery that the world’s richest, most technologically advanced country could not restore basic services to minimal prewar levels left an impression of American weakness and, worse, of indifference to the well-being of ordinary Iraqis.
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Yet another example of shoddy contract writing, lax oversight and absent supervision that has consistently characterized Washington’s approach to Iraq reconstruction from the start.

How pathetic! And how tragic!

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You thought Google wanted to pervade all our lives even more? Here's a situation where they don't want us to use google. (They are not evil, remember?)

As it turns out, they are okay with us saying "I googled it out" - but only if we had actually used their search engine. Don't say "I googled it out on Yahoo!", please.

By the way, I sometimes use Dogpile because they google from all googling engines!

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There's a portfolio game on. Here's my take:

93 Shares of TCS @ Rs. 1080.1 = Rs. 1,00,449.3