5th May 2005, 8:31 AM
Well, they really didn't win so much as the US left... It would have taken a while, but the US would have won if they just stuck around.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)