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...caucus seems as if it were constructed to keep away everyone but hard-core party activists and the pitifully lonely, but it can actually lead to an informed decision. And while three hours seems like a lot to give up for democracy, it's shorter than that last Lord of the Rings movie. The lack of a secret ballot does make some people nervous, but having to declare your political opinion in public probably keeps people from voting for things they should be ashamed of, such as liking cats. Plus there's something nice about getting together with your neighbors...
...Carre lives a life apart. He steers clear of the London literary scene. He refuses to allow his books to be submitted for prizes, and he declines all honors offered him. "I am not a Commander of the British Empire," he says. "I will never be Sir David, Lord David or King David." He and his wife Jane spend most of the year in self-imposed exile in a compound on the rocky, wave-scoured coast of Cornwall, at the very southwestern tip of England, a surreal, almost uninhabited landscape of ancient stone circles, 12th century churches and sheep-dotted...
...Return Of The King, the third of the three films re-creating J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series of novels, towers over the banal concerns of our everyday lives [Dec. 15]. Finally, entertainment of the highest order! Self-effacing heroes, alternately dauntless and fearful, doubt ridden yet determined and selfless in devotion to the purest of friendships. If we are to have heroes, then let them be like Toklien's, grand and glorious! MICHAEL K. MALONEY Colorado Springs, Colo...
...should not surprise us. Countries have different interests. For a half-century, anticommunism papered over those differences, but communism is gone. Europe lives by Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Alliance with America is no longer a permanent interest. The postwar alliance that once structured and indeed defined our world is dead. It died...
...should not surprise us. Countries have different interests. For a half-century, anticommunism papered over those differences, but communism is gone. Europe lives by Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Alliance with America is no longer a permanent interest. The postwar alliance that once structured and indeed defined our world is dead. It died...