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...real thing about Safire, though, was not whether his columns made sense. It was that the man could write. At their best, which was often - he had a great hit rate - Safire columns were just tremendously good fun, full of wordplay, some of it groan-inducing, much of it sheer enjoyment. That is depressingly rare. Not for Safire the cloddish metaphors, arch constructions, one-sentence paragraphs and dreary wonkery that are the stock in trade of too many modern American columnists. He was of that generation of inky-fingered wretches who remember that it isn't a sin for journalism...
That demographic influence extends inside the house too. The great room that first caught on in the early 1990s is undergoing a revival - a large, undelineated family room-breakfast nook-kitchen combination meshes well with attitudes of casualness and flexibility. For years, the bell has been tolling for the formal living room, and that trend is accelerating...
Your cover photograph of the late, great, Ted Kennedy surely doesn't do him justice. This study of a seemingly bewildered and disillusioned man does not reflect the positive and dedicated humanitarian he became. The photograph inside the magazine of the passionate politician, in full flow with word and fist and pen, would have been a far more graphic final reminder of what we have lost. Ted Williamson, EAGLESHAM, SCOTLAND...
...leaders was never whether to modernize - but how. During the Maoist era a variety of economic models were experimented with, each of which achieving some modicum of growth. Yet all of them left China lagging far behind the West and East Asia. The costs of some initiatives, like the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1960, were catastrophic in human and environmental terms. It was not until Deng and Chen Yun, another reform-minded Politburo member, returned to power in 1978 from internal exile that the economic course was changed. (See pictures of a new look at old Shanghai...
...allegations of vote-rigging and electoral fraud following last month's Afghan elections haven't helped. President Hamid Karzai was once the West's great hope for Afghanistan - stylish and urbane, deeply versed in Afghan politics but not completely part of it, he seemed the perfect man to lead his country out of its darkest days. But Western capitals have found him an unreliable and often frustrating partner. The election has "raised a question in people's minds," says Colonel Christopher Langton, senior fellow for Conflict and Defence Diplomacy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "Why should...