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...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...
...because it presents a family turned inside out by Calvin's imagination. The symbol of that inversion is Hobbes, a stuffed tiger who comes to life for Calvin. It is a device as old as "The Nutcracker," and it is a powerful way to blur the lines between reality and cartoon reality and cartoon imagination...
...bellying up to the bar and putting a real plan on the table." Most Washington insiders think the bill will move quickly. "This package is a speeding bullet. The lobbyists will try to put a few of their own nicks in it, but really it is just a blur," said Kenneth Guenther, executive vice president of the Independent Bankers Association of America...
...their fraudulent and incompetent brethren. Says Adam Jahns, chairman of Chicago's Craigin Federal Savings & Loan: "I don't think we should have to pay for serious crimes committed by others." Another complaint by S & Ls is that by combining thrift and banking supervision, the Bush plan may blur the distinction between the two and eventually remove any competitive advantage the thrifts still have, principally the ability to borrow long-term funds from federal Home Loan banks. Commercial banks are restricted to taking shorter-term loans from Federal Reserve banks. Besides paying higher premiums under the Bush plan...
...from the Beltway is the chanting of transition mantras -- the phrases that rise to the lips of Washingtonians every time someone new moves into the Oval Office. Like other ritual phrases, transition mantras are hallowed by time; they may even contain traces of truth. But as a steady background blur, they are as dulling to the mind as New Age music...