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...other hand, many experts believe that if Washington persists in spoiling for a battle with Syria, Assad will only gain prestige in the Middle East for standing up to a superpower. If the U.S. respects Syria's interests, its wily leaders may respond positively. Says Judith Kipper, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute: "The Syrians are very eager to be treated as grownups and taken seriously...
...Kipper War? We all know that Israel would start a war on the holiest day of the year, with the intention of wiping itself off the face of the earth. All countries secretly desire to evaporate in self-immolation...
...feeling was clearly shared by British newspapers excluded from the cozy press conference arranged by the Times for Blunt. Huffed the Daily Express: "Professor Blunt would not have been offered so much as a stale kipper at the Express office, he is such a phony old humbug." Maureen Bingham, who spent 30 months in prison for violating the Official Secrets Act, charged, "It is one law for the rich and one law for the poor...
...More sugar is consumed on Christmas Day in America than on Easter, Halloween, and Yom Kipper combined...
Writers aren't the only ones doing it. In response to a story alleging that shrimp are merely prawns of Japanese commercial interests, Assistant Art Director Arturo Cazeneuve sent out an interoffice memo: "As the kipper of high standards, I want to say just for the halibut that your story is rather scampi in detail." Conditions last week would have been even worse except for the temporary absence of our champion punster, Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer. In self-defense. Kanfer observes that puns show up in the most ancient writings, and "what was occasional in the classicists was fecund...