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George R.R. Martin is fond of sudden reversals. The tasty but poisoned dish, the false god who abruptly proves all too real, the unsalvageable rogue who strikes a hidden vein of decency when we--and he--least expect it. Martin is also partial to sacked castles, bear pits, disastrous battles, cynical betrayals, public executions, assassinations, ill luck, duels to the death, ambushes in forests and corpses left rotting in green hedgerows. The world Martin writes about may bear a passing resemblance to Olde Englande, but it is not a Merrie...
...part of. The members struck me as clever guys with good senses of humor who were legitimately interested in one another. I imagine that men and women in different clubs probably describe their first punch event and the remainder of their successful punch seasons in equally fond terms. In the best-case scenario, a final club member finds in his or her club exactly the sense of community that the House system fails to provide.But as we know, punch and the final clubs as institutions comprise a system where best-case scenarios are few and far-between. Depending...
...that public-opinion considerations were never as high in France as elsewhere. And after 30 years of living with nuclear energy, the French have grown used to the idea - and enjoy stable electricity prices, especially at a time when oil and gas prices are shooting up. "The French are fond of their nukes," Mandil says. But even in France, nuclear is not free from controversy. Still, two other towns besides Flamanville actively lobbied to be the site of the new French reactor. Opinion surveys commissioned by Areva for internal use show that nuclear's reputation has been improving. As recently...
From TV news producers to politicians to home-security companies, few people have ever gone broke overestimating the fears of extremely unthreatened Americans. And producer Jerry Bruckheimer is not a man who is fond of going broke. He nearly singlehandedly made CBS No. 1 with his CSI franchise and its crime-story satellites. His track record in other genres is spotty--this season, the middling WB buddy-lawyer show Just Legal and NBC's Pentagon snooze E-Ring--but in cop procedurals, he has gone five for five. That tingle in your chest when you see Anthony LaPaglia race...
...Journalists (and Republicans) are fond of remarking on how Bush has tried to avoid the mistakes of his father. And that is surely true. But Bush now faces the woes of his fellow Texan, LBJ, too-how to expand government at home and fight a sluggish, unsatisfying war abroad. Johnson did so with a landslide election victory, a surging economy and a more optimistic view of government at his back. Bush lacks those advantages and has skyrocketing energy prices to contend with as well...