Nixon's opportunities in Pakistan and Sri Lanka are likely to be limited to warm-up games with Alec Stewart certain to play in all six Test, providing he remains fit.

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As Mark points out, the Russian navy, and its Mediterranean patrols, are more about prestige than actual power projection and its relationships with Syria and Iran can be useful, but only up to a certain degree.

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As with Sony's portable HDTV offering, the MREAL has two small displays sitting just in front of your eyes -- and also like the Sony (and any similar technology, we'd imagine) certain images take some getting used to -- particular those intended to be up close, with small writing (the dashboard of a car, for example).

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If UNMOVIC were to compromise on either of these, we might end up with Iraq begin declared free of WMD, when if fact all that would be certain is that UNMOVIC could not find any evidence of WMD.

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What we think would be extremely harmful, because of the uncertainty it creates, would be to create a tollbooth where every two or three weeks you have to collectively with Congress come up with a certain amount of -- certain figure, certain monetary -- number figure in order to fund the government for another two or three weeks.

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