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...Krauthammer's reason for the demise of such movements is false and frightening. He suggests that it is the result of bombs and missiles, military expertise and power. No! Ideas will always overpower military might if the ideas are right. False theology will bring its own downfall. JOHN VAN DER GRAAF St. Louis...
That view changed dramatically last week when Edmund Stoiber, the premier of Bavaria and the CSU's chairman, announced he was a candidate to oppose Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in national elections this September. Within five days, Stoiber's main opponent for the job, CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel, announced she was dropping out of the race, leaving it to Stoiber to carry the conservative banner...
...spite of this sophisticated structure, Clowes keeps the focus on characterization. The various inhabitants include Random Wilder, the eccentric would-be poet laureate; Violet Van der Platz, the insecure, love-lorn teenage girl; Charles, the hyper-articulate and aware sixth-grader; and Mr. Ames, the mono-maniacal private investigator. Each has their own story to tell, along with half a dozen other characters, including "Rocky" the town's inhabitant in 100,000 B.C. "There goes Ogg," he thinks, "'Mr. Sunshine' - what's his secret? I'll kill him." Between them all Clowes builds another of his hilariously slightly off-center...
...Lyrically, he could be sloppy: rhyming "m" and "n" sounds, cheating by using "piano" as a two-, then a three-syllable word in "I Love a Piano." A devilishly intricate rhyme a la Stephen Sondheim ("We'll have Leontyne Price to sing a/ Medley from 'Der Meistersinger'") was not Berlin's style - to Sondheim's caviar, his lyrics were Spam - but in "Annie Get Your Gun" he did a triple rhyme ("You can't shoot a male in the tail like a quail") whose comic force quickly escalates musically and in the singer's volume. And he could pay cheeky...
Intelligence sharing, though more focused than ever in the face of a common recognized foe, remains an entirely national prerogative. But why rub it in? More than once since Sept. 11, European leaders have seemed eager to do just that. Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair held a minisummit to discuss Afghanistan last month in Ghent, just before a full E.U. summit, but pointedly excluded other member states...