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...group, with a sense of humor unabashedly adolescent, both pleasing and easy to please. His love of verbal play is so intense it seems like a bright boy's first passion at discovering the worlds in words - the alternate, funhouse universes that language could create. Sometimes that ardor lasts a lifetime; it did for Joyce and Nabokov. Not that Idle is at their rarefied level, but his word-joy was from the beginning, and remains, infectious...
That, in part, explains the ardor of the Israelis' effort to find Shalit. Olmert, who took office after Ariel Sharon's stroke in January, had little choice but to go into Gaza, given the Israeli public's deep identification with the army, in which most Israeli citizens have served. Lacking any counterpart on the Palestinian side that it trusts, Israel has taken a "shake the trees" approach, putting as much pressure as possible on the government and civilian population in the hopes that someone would turn on Hamas. But it's difficult to see how some Israeli tactics, particularly...
...concrete part has some Hong Kong residents worried. The city has long had a mania for massive building and land-reclamation projects, but that ardor is cooling. Landfill has left Hong Kong with an ever-narrowing harbor, and the reclaimed land has frequently been used for roads and bus terminals rather than for parks or restaurants. "Hong Kong has a magnificent harbor," says Christine Loh, head of Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong think tank. "But actually it's pretty awful at the waterfront...
...protest what Rajoy called its "ignominious" dealings with the banned Batasuna party to negotiate an end to the Basque separatist terrorist group eta. But economic policy is one area where the idea of the "two Spains" has little grip. That is due in large part to Spain's abiding ardor for the European Union. "Everybody in Spain agrees that we have to make sure our fiscal and economic policies are in line with Brussels," says Antonio Argandoña, professor of economics at the Barcelona campus of the iese business school. "There's a consensus on these questions...
DIED. James Conway, 78, co-founder of Mister Softee ice cream, cherished mobile purveyor of frozen delights; in Ocean City, N.J. Such was the ardor for the white trucks that when New York City officials tried to ban the familiar--to some, cloying--jingle, a public outcry forced them to back down. Launched in 1956, when Conway and his brother William drove a truck around Philadelphia giving away green ice cream on St. Patrick's Day, the company now has 600 trucks in 15 states...