Alas, the focus wasn't so much on beauty as on making a machine that shouts, "I am the most powerful, durable and efficient air conditioner in world history!"

WSJ: Ugliness for All

These establishment foreign policy types claim to be "realists" - yet they advocate prescriptions that have no realistic chance whatsoever of durable success (see a powerful op.ed. in today's Wall Street Journal by Michael Rubin on the past and pending failures of their worldview).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Tragedy of errors

It features a durable magnesium alloy case and with a 300MHz Pentium II brain and 64MB RAM, it is as powerful and compatible as most desktop computers.

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