google s executive chairman eric schmidt about the great tablet battle between apple and google. why it matters who will win. here is my take. pakistan s military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion it must have known where bin laden was hiding. in response, it is using its old tricks and hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. it is leaking stories to favor journalists, all with the aim of stoking anti-americanism in pakistan. having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al qaeda or gross incompetence and the realty is probably a bit of both, it is now furiously trying to change the subject. generals angrily denounce america for entering the country. a pakistani friend put it to me this way. it is like a person caught in bed with another man s wife who is indignant that someone entered his house. the military has also once again been able to stop the civilian government. according to pakistani sources, the speech g
officials are focused on this one 26-mile stretch of a dirt road to nowhere. it s actually the levee. see the crew on the left hand side, it s for the yazoo and mississippi river. this levee is holding it back. however, there s one foot between the level of the water and when it goes over the top. the prediction is it s going to go over the top. we were talking with the secretary of state of mississippi, they expect it to happen overnight. water going over the levee is not the end of the world unless it triggers the collapse of the levee. they don t want to guesstimate. i put the question of how bad it would be with peter. here is what he said. if this levee were to fail, what are the consequences and who would be impacted and how far? the town is 30 to 35 miles from here. that town would be under water. numerous towns would be under water. highways under water. thousands of people have to evacuate the area. hundreds of thousands of acres would be under water. we would floo