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...drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He would still be turning away from the U.N. and declining to sign treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Small Arms Ban and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The current crisis has limited Bush’s ability to go astray on other policy issues for now, but I’d wager that in three months, he’ll be back to his usual tricks...
...understandable that Carolyn Hax, who writes "Tell Me About It," a syndicated Washington Post advice column for people under 30, has become the rage among readers within and well beyond that age group. Faced with the immemorial conundrums of love gone awry or astray, friendships and families come undone or the regular frustrations of living in a world with other people in it, Hax manages to offer advice that is simple, bracing and smart. To a displaced Alabaman letter writer tired of jokes deprecating the South, she recommends a laugh followed by the remark: "A redneck joke--how unique...
...Erect, wiry, with Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth”), or Beloved Ali the taxi driver (“Hey! American man! You are a godless homosexual rapist of your mother’s pet goat”). Some of these seem to go astray: Perry Pincus, seducer of Eng Lit. celebs and “unashamed sexual butterfly” is presumably a (biting) portrayal of an actual acquaintance of Rushdie’s, though for those of us outside the know, she is fairly superfluous. Although Rushdie’s New York is peopled...
...Then there?s the whole heartthrob thing. Where did we go so far astray in this country as to consider someone like Ben, who is a reasonably nice-looking fellow, but no more a heartthrob than most of the guys in my high school class, worthy of matinee idol status...
...Iraq's increasingly sophisticated anti-aircraft capabilities; in January allied planes patrolling the no-fly zone came under fire more often than they did all of last year. But the Pentagon admitted that more than half the bombs dropped in a raid on Baghdad earlier this month had gone astray. Both the U.S. and Britain said they will consider changes to the current sanctions regime against Iraq, which has lost support among some U.S. allies and has done little to loosen Saddam Hussein's hold on power. "Our sanctions are like Swiss cheese,'' said President Bush. "We're going...