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...White House. He must have laughed at the C-Span junkies yelling something indecipherable about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) express train heading back to Arizona. Yet as amusing as this good old American election drama is, there is something sinister and insidious lurking beneath Uncle Sam’s contented conservative front. It is the same unsettling force belying the pleasant satisfaction of America’s ever sprawling suburbs. The commitment to justice for the dispossessed—outside of G.O.P. focus groups awe-struck by George—is as absent as black faces...
...wilds is a rare and miraculous event; the population has dwindled to a few thousand birds. Forced from the dwindling groves of spruce and hemlock trees, the owls have retreated slowly westward over the last few decades. Now, just miles from the Pacific, in the low river valleys beneath the Olympic mountains, the spotted owl is living out its numbered days...
Fuzzy methodology aside, the book is to be commended for its accessibility and wealth of archive-culled facts and anecdotes. Uncloaked works well as fair-minded introduction to the study of folktales and how gender and power work beneath the surface of a tale most people have seen before and will certainly see again...
...should come on board. But experts warn that it will be years--if ever--before everyone is in place and pulling in the same direction. The project is already months late, thanks in part to squabbling among the 22 presidential appointees who are seeing their turf sliced and diced beneath them. (One complaint: How come the Coast Guard commandant gets to report directly to the new Secretary, whereas Customs and INS have to go through an Under Secretary who in turn reports to a Deputy Secretary?) Asks James Steinberg, a scholar at the Brookings Institution: "Are we going to spend...
...hair on their chins, but the rest of the political spectrum is clean-shaven. So the whiskers of Mitzna, who was picked last week to lead the Labor Party into national elections in January, have come to symbolize the enigma of this newcomer. Is there a strong, decisive chin beneath the fuzz, or is he soft and fluffy, like the beard? Labor's 130,000 members voted overwhelmingly to find out. Many who supported Mitzna in the primary say they don't really know what kind of a man he is, but that anything's better than...