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Britain gets more than its fair share of any heat going, as we have found yet again with the detention of Iranian staff from the British embassy in Tehran. "Englistan" is seen as the most inveterate and craftiest of Iran's enemies. Iran's relations with the rest of Europe, crisis-prone in normal times, are fraying. Tehran would like to get back at the E.U. for postelection protests. On July 6, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Iranians deserve better leadership. Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, warned that Iran would present a firm fist to "nosy meddlers" in their...
...ghosts that possess Mitchell--James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Martin Amis--are sturdy ones, and this master of voices knows science and generic utopian Asia, Steven Spielberg and British misanthropy. His language crackles with texture and bite: "Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman" and "[the] sequined gaggle of mantled goslings streamed past me." Mitchell, with typical impenitence, even invents a whole new dialect ("A yarnin' is more delish with broke-de-mouth grinds") for a race in the future. The propulsive zing of his sentences and the unexpected U-turn of his narrative give added fuel...
...when? The constant pushing of the frontier is a central idea to Americans; we are a pioneering people. I daresay, with such a large budget deficit it only makes Bush's proposal all the more heroic, especially in the world's eye. Perhaps this is the craftiest political stunt we have seen in a long time, but nevertheless, it will also mark what may be a second Age of Exploration and lay the foundation for the greatest era of scientific discovery the world has ever seen. Scott Chessare Chicago...
...postelection stage groaned with a menagerie of personages vying for attention: politicians, judges, lawyers, talking heads. Yet who proved himself--once again--the craftiest, the savviest pol of them all? Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist...
...There's been a general sense that Bush has been "out-lawyered." The implication is that out-lawyering is downright un-American. Issues shouldn't be decided by the craftiest lawyers but on their merits. Hip hip hooray. But I've found that people who lose cases on their merits often complain that they've been "out-lawyered." I'm growing a little weary of the Bush campaign's constant cry that Gore's lawyers changed the rules in the middle of the game. Fine, but if the rules are wrong or don't reflect the will of the voter...