For stomping jackboots, substitute the thundering feet of musicians wearing bakiak (wooden clogs).

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Clearly, somebody realized that amateur programmers using the Kinect for cool, creative projects was great advertising for Microsoft, while marching in with jackboots and cease-and-desist orders wasn't.

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To "stabilize" their regimes, they wrought unholy alliances with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wahabis, the only forces in Egyptian and Saudi societies that have not been flattened under their jackboots.

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