Washington portrays Microsoft as a juggernaut, but the software giant is hardly invulnerable, a case in point being its blindness to the significance of the Internet a few years ago.

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This is not an abstract, philosophical, academic point, but a strategic purpose of great practical significance.

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Monty Panesar received a tumultuous reception but failed to trouble the scorers, and although he appeared harshly done by when given out caught at silly point, his duck is unlikely to be of great significance.

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Now all of this will lead to either, A, finding nothing of significance, or, B, Saddam denying the team access to some facility, at which point the matter would presumably come back to the Security Council.

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It is tempting to think that he is joking, and that his theoretical elaborations about the true significance of communist-era jokes are a subtle parody of the way that modern literary critics so often miss the point of the texts they write about.

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