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...contrary to Patrick J. Buchanan, the WTO, the UN and the International Court of Justice--ha, ha, seriously--do not intend to rule...
WHEN SPRING COMES TO THE CITIES OF JAPAN, salarymen dutifully assemble under cherry blossoms, and drunkenly bawl songs in what is really only a quainter version of St. Patrick's Day. In the fall, supermarkets hang paper leaves from their cash registers, and cigarette makers issue packages featuring autumn colors. To a jaded foreigner such an observation can seem as formulaic and debased as the Muzaked versions of Jingle Bells that torment every department store from Bangor to Bangkok...
Dole had every reason to be in good spirits. Just a month ago, he lost New Hampshire to conservative columnist Patrick S. Buchanan and went on to lose three of the first five primaries. But, with Wisconsin still up in the air yesterday, he had piled up a 21-0 primary record since, and added a couple of caucus victories to boot. "Part of our strategy, of course, early on was to lose New Hampshire," Dole joked...
Although one probably would expect the library to host an Irish Cultural Week in honor of St. Patrick's Day, Harris said the library held an Irish celebration last year and decided to promote a different culture this year...
...Trojan war had Homer. The Spanish-American war had William Randolph Hearst. Every calamity has its bard, and downsizing's is Scott Adams. True, Patrick Buchanan deserves some credit for recognizing exactly what it means to employees to be expendable gaskets in America's re-engineering. But Adams, the creator of a sack-shaped, ever threatened corporate loser named Dilbert, was there first. The result is that Dilbert, which already runs in more than 800 newspapers with a readership of some 60 million people, is still the fastest-growing comic strip in the country...