If Doha were to consider that there is no need to explain what it has in mind, as long as it is doing as it pleases, it will unfortunately not give up its known methods.
This, of course, conveniently allows Microsoft to continue to do as it pleases: it takes years for each case to work its way through the courts, and by then Microsoft's bundling has achieved the desired effect.
When Mr. Brown merely pleases, it can seem a little disappointing.
But, while her voice pleases, it doesn't have the clarion ring of Elaine Page or the lyric intensity of Julie Covington and what you gain in Latin American authenticity you sometimes lose in comprehensibility.
GIVEN the raw star power that allows Sylvie Guillem to do much as she pleases, it is perhaps odd that the idolized French dancer is launching her career as a choreographer with a work that has long irritated her.
Asking an Australian not to drink is like asking a dog not to shit where ever it pleases; it takes years of training.
