Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, has embarked on a Middle Eastern tour and all this diplomacy is designed to shore up a truce painstakingly negotiated earlier in the month by George Tenet, the director of the CIA. So much for Mr Bush's hands-off policy.
So both presidential campaigns are adhering to a tenuous, unwritten hands-off agreement when it comes to race and religion even as they themselves struggle to navigate those waters.
The same goes with the performance on this 1.3GHz OMAP 4470-packing device, so we'll have to hold off judgment until we get our hands on a final unit -- which shouldn't be long...