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...been unlucky in his potential partners. Last year Israeli voters replaced Ehud Barak, who wanted peace, with Sharon, who doesn't want it very badly. Bush may have figured early on that neither Arafat nor Sharon was likely to step into the role of peacemaker anytime soon, so why bother trying to convert either? And so Bush spent the first two-thirds of 2001 worrying less about foreign policy than domestic matters. When he did look overseas, first it was Russia and China that tested him. Then it was Osama bin Laden...
...stay out till 4 A.M. every Monday." Yet Howell, a restaurant server-manager, also has little in common with the older, upper-middle-class moms at her daughter's preschool. "Some of them look at me funny because I'm young," Howell says, "but it doesn't bother me. I'm proud of my daughter." And, she adds, "when my daughter is 18, I'll be only...
...disinvite him, but the resulting spat was the most serious public challenge to her cultural authority since the box-office failure of Beloved, the 1998 film she starred in and guided to the screen. If the Franzen episode meant the book club was going to bring her grief, why bother...
...team was in Florida, Coach Walsh came up to me and asked me if I could see the ball,” Lopez said. “He doesn’t want me to get hurt and is still scared sometimes. But it doesn’t bother me. I feel great...
...employ in order to simply sidestep lack-of-content syndrome. I could write a meta-column about writing a column. However, any delusions of column grandeur would soon dissipate because this idea has been employed by every hack since the invention of language. Most scholars do not even bother to read Homer’s first work—10,000 tired lines of dactylic hexameter about a blind guy trying to write a timeless epic. Homer was able to learn from his mistake and went on to compose the legendary Odyssey and “SeinfSld...