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Apparently this is the latest from the author of “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” and it looks like a good one to cuddle up to on a black, mysterious, winter’s eve. The flowers on the front aren’t giving much up by way of plot, but the back promises “petulant princesses” and “vengeful owls.” Oh boy! Brew yourself some whole-leaf elderberry-flower tea and tell Petunia Maplethorpe the Sufjan concert will have to wait. This cloth-bound...
...Halloween, you see, is short for All Hallows' Eve, the night before All Saint's Day (Nov. 1), when Catholics pay homage to the souls of the faithful departed - the dead who've gone to heaven. (Nov. 2 is All Souls' Day, dedicated to the dead in Purgatory, doing time while their sins are cleansed.) It is not, as Satan proclaimed on South Park last week, a day for the devil. It's the day for those with the moral strength to reject the devil's seductions and escape eternal damnation. Nor is Halloween, in its religious sense, a time...
...other words, Kerry has managed on the eve of what could be a watershed election to remind pretty much everyone what it was they didn't like about the Democrats, and especially what they didn't like about him. It might have made more sense just to say he was sorry - for once to get ahead of a mistake, instead of trying to compensate for it the next time...
...More telling is when staying the course turns into "constantly changing tactics to meet the situation on the ground." That is how President Bush is now describing the battle plan in Iraq. It also pretty neatly sums up what his presidency has come to as he reaches the eve of a midterm congressional election that has turned into a referendum on Bush himself--and on a policy in Iraq that has left him more isolated than at any other point in his presidency...
Iraq is what has put the President on the eve of a possible rebuke by voters. And if Bush were a different kind of politician--if he loved political jawboning like Lyndon Johnson or could show political elasticity like Bill Clinton--this moment might be less significant. But Bush has perfected the art of governing from inside his razor-thin majority, and is proud above all of his ideological toughness. That's why the midterms could do more than change the balance of power in Washington, if current polls are right and one or both houses shift to Democratic hands...