"Foreign diplomats say Powell represents what many people in the world think America should be -- open and generous with the world, and with an ear to other points of view. The secretary looks all the better, they add, because the United States under Mr. Bush appears determined to hew its own path in the world, whether it's about greenhouse gases, the International Criminal Court, or now Iraq.

"Powell is the international community's great white hope," says a Pakistani diplomat, grinning at his own irony."

Powell is my only hope in the mess that is this administration.  I can only hope Bush starts listening to him soon.

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There we go. [via Seb's Open Research]

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It can connect to Macs, PCs and Unix machines, as well as all kinds of networks, from wireless WiFi networks to the new, always-on GPRS cell-phone nets.

It streams MP3s off the Net and can read headlines aloud that have been automatically fetched from online news sites.

What is this amazing machine? The latest sleek Clié from Sony, or a skunkworks Pocket PC yet to hit the market?

I still have my Newton.  Even managed to get it up and running again a few months back.  I did a bit of poking around for more recent software and such, but as I had an older model (the MessagePad 110), I couldn't find much.  This article has some good pointers, so maybe I'll play with it a bit more.

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"US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared the White House's policy of seeking the removal of the Iraqi leader with Winston Churchill's warnings about Adolf Hitler before the Second World War."

Hmmm....something tells me the situation is a little different.