There are the Buffalo wings and the over-praised commercials, and this year there is a halftime Madonna concert, followed by a loud 20-minute discussion among friends as to whether a halftime Madonna concert was good idea.

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Indeed, one frequent criticism of the Kosovars, and of their intellectuals, is that, especially last year, they hugely over-estimated the strength of the Kosovo Liberation Army, praised it to the skies (in newspapers such as Koha Ditore, among others) and puffed it up when it was nowhere near ready to take on the Serbs.

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And Mr Bush himself has praised the Europeans' painstaking negotiations with Iran over its uranium-enrichment programme.

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The 10.1-inch Toshiba Excite 10LE was the lightest tablet the group has tested, at a little over one pound, and Pantech's new 8-inch Element tab was praised for its claim of being waterproof.

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Cink praised the crowd at St Andrews after bowing out with a two-over 74 to finish one over par.

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