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...When Bush gets back to business in January, he'll be walking right into a war that's getting as ugly as any on the other side of the globe - the one in Congress. Bush has made but one real foray up the Hill since Sept. 11, and his mighty poll numbers didn't prevent an intransigent Tom Daschle from slapping him around on the economic stimulus package. Now he's sent word that he'll be hanging around the home front a lot more next year, trying to slip the good war/bad economy noose that got his father...
...SEASON OF THE WITCHEL: PW dumps on "Me Times Three" by Alex Witchel (Knopf; February 1). "NYT Style reporter Witchel makes her initial foray into fiction with a darkly humorous take on a young woman's growing pains...a disappointing offering from a writer whose privileged perspective on the culture, manner and style of NY in its 20th-century heyday might have yielded something less predictable, or at least more titillatingly revealing...
...Tangalu and her family waited in the jungle those two nights, hoping that the Muslims would leave after the attack, as they had a month earlier when they destroyed the nearby village of Patiwunga. But this was no hit-and-run foray by locals bent on revenge. This time, Tangalu soon realized, the attackers had more long-range intentions. So she and her family walked for two more days through the jungle. A police car escorted the family to a Christian rescue group, which then took them to safety in Tentena, where they are staying with some 20 other refugee...
...says it because he is genuinely relaxed. He is a jazz pianist at the helm of the Danny Fox Quartet (Quintet or Trio, depending on the night) that plays local shows, including appearances at Club Passim, Loeb House receptions, Cabot housemaster birthday parties and other assorted events. So a foray into the jazz music world is a definite possibility if the whole joining the circus thing doesn’t work out. Instead of tickling the ivories professionally, however, Fox could also see himself chopping seven dozen onions a night at a culinary institute or working in a restaurant...
...Forget Kandahar. After the roadblock, they herded us off to a high-walled compound in a place called Spin Boldak. Aside from one foray to a refugee camp whipped by dust storms, they've kept us inside this compound for two days now. The only diversion is watching our Taliban guards tossing stones at the hundreds of Afghans perched on the wall, fascinated by our high-tech equipment and foreign female reporters who aren't hidden in a burqa, an outfit which turns a woman into a pup tent with feet...