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...think Bush's speech makes it more likely they will now dump him? Since the time of Caesar Augustus, imperial powers have tried to find local chiefs they can do business with. It never works; just because you sign a treaty with Red Cloud, it doesn't mean Sitting Bull stays on the reservation. National-liberation movements (and Palestinians believe they are engaged in one) are quite happy, thank you very much, to choose their own leaders. Margaret Thatcher wanted Bishop Abel Muzorewa, a moderate nationalist, to lead independent Zimbabwe. Most Zimbabweans wanted Robert Mugabe and in 1980 duly elected...
...doing: "I played golf," "I joined a health club," "I take pride in my lawn." To his disgust, he is turning into one of those people "with mortgages, health insurance [and] special sheds to store their garbage cans." There are some easy targets here--Zevin goes after such battered bull's-eyes as psychotherapy and the state of New Jersey--but he hits them unerringly and sometimes from unexpected angles. Here he is on the prospect of paternity: "I don't want to be a father; I want to be a baby...
...interviewer. Her male fans are surprised to find she plays tennis?who knew? KEN LIVINGSTONE London mayor allegedly pushes tabloid reporter over a wall. Britons are excited?they haven't had a two-fisted politician since Thatcher BERNIE EBBERS Ex-WorldCom CEO summoned by U.S. Congress. That whole bull market thing during the '90s? Never mind. It was an accounting error...
...same hour on Capitol Hill, Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers raised their right hands to be sworn in before the House Un-American Activities Committee. And so the cold war's First Battle of Bull Run began, eventually producing divisions in America almost as dramatic as the racial ones. That word indivisible is a handsome thought, which we rally to in wartime and generally preserve as an ultimate ideal, but it has rarely described American history as it is enacted on the ground. America is more interesting than the pietisms it lavishes upon itself...
...they resorted to the national pastimes of making excuses. They may have somewhat of a point this time, but what about the other 16? The truth is that Spain plays with the flair of the promising matador that always fails to insert the sword in the neck of the bull in the first try, which is the mark of a good fighter. The Spaniards love to use the cape, but the close sight of the horns freezes them...