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...Getting to play with a grownup, or just listen in on their porch conversations, teaches children more about becoming one. Summer is a stage, where we rehearse for the dramas that winter brings. Nothing is for keeps; you can mess up your lines, try a new costume, improvise. Embarrassment evaporates faster in this heat, you live in the moment, don't hold grudges, and so it's easier to take risks, and not take yourself seriously...
...Anybody knows not to mess with me" Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House
...Arab leaders, moreover, have learned to be suspicious of Rice's revolutionary ambitions - just a year ago, she spoke of spreading "creative chaos" in the region. Iraq, after all, is Exhibit A of the Bush Administration's "New Middle East," and it's a bloody mess that is growing worse by the day. Now, for Act 2, the Arabs are being told to sit quietly while Israel tears Lebanon apart, after months of watching it slowly throttle Gaza through a U.S.-backed economic blockade, and then bomb it for weeks on end. Hardly surprising that the Arabs - from...
...crying uncle a week from now, the U.S. will have vindicated itself in the eyes of allies, and inflicted a stinging defeat on the likes of Iran and Syria. If not, the Bush Administration may find itself drawn into some hitherto unthinkable diplomatic minuets to untangle a dangerous mess in southern Lebanon...
...Taste of Freedom Thank you for Chiu Hei-Yuan's viewpoint "Growing Pains" [June 26], on Taiwan's political mess. As a native of Taiwan, I have always been very proud of our bloodless transition from Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarianism to full-fledged democracy. Democracy means nothing less than all the political, press and religious freedoms we currently enjoy. It certainly does not mean having a totalitarian dictatorship appoint an unelected administrator for us. But the Chinese Communist Party thinks it is possible to impose such fake democracy-its "one country, two systems" policy-on Taiwan. The party...