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...Republicans want to portray the President as a bungler who?s allowed defense capabilities to diminish for six years," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Party leaders stand ready to argue that America was not adequately prepared for the current war, and that the country is not ready to fight in a second theater should another crisis suddenly arise. The strategy of attacking the President?s military policy in the midst of a war has its risks. "Democrats can certainly be counted on to argue that the GOP is merely playing politics," says Dickerson. "And Republicans are also mindful...
...chair to get a better view when she walks past. (The general ceased ordering her to retrieve files from the bottom drawer about 10 years ago.) He even apologizes to her and PRIVATE BLIPS. He's a reformed general--almost. "He's still a bad golfer and a bureaucratic bungler with bad marital habits," says Walker. "He embodies all our failures. We're not going to be deprived of things to make...
...putting Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) among the giants of 19th century French painting--Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet or Cezanne. Yet in his lifetime he was regarded as one of the greatest landscapists who ever lived, and for most cultivated Frenchmen the very idea of comparing a bungler like Cezanne with their beloved Corot would have seemed faintly barbarous. The big show that opened in Paris last month--drawings and prints at the Bibliotheque Nationale, 163 paintings at the Grand Palais--marking the 200th anniversary of Corot's birth, is unlikely to bring that feeling back. (It travels...
Fomenting a military coup against Saddam seems a slightly more promising option. Some of the dictator's officers regard him as a bungler who has brought disaster on Iraq; British intelligence in fact hears there have been three unsuccessful coup attempts since the end of the gulf war. Americans add that Saddam has had 80-odd officers executed, and there are stories of gun battles in the streets of Baghdad between supporters of an ousted intelligence chief and followers of his successor...
Like many gardeners, I am rather a bungler. I know very little about pH soil tests. I think I know how to prune a rosebush, but the rosebush may think otherwise. I learned from my father the basic rules of mulching and thinning -- how to stake out the tomatoes, how to make the peas climb up the chicken wire, how to bind up the raspberries -- but the techniques that worked in the fertile hills of Vermont do not necessarily work in the sands of Long Island. Most important of all, I do not have the time (or the energy...