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...before the editors of Time, the Wall Street Journal, and National Review wax too eloquent about the significance of Canada's recent election they should ponder this: the September 4th result was undoubtedly the Conservative Party's greatest electoral victory. It may also turn out to be Canadian conservatism's greatest single defeat...
...case provides a fine example. After two weeks of sometimes embarrassing, and more often confusing, haggling between Ferraro and the press, the Vice Presidential candidate finally put the issue to rest at a 90-minute press conference. More important, the conference had the effect of leaving the public to ponder whether suspicions of corruption had been aroused primarily by a sleaze-mongering press...
...printed word. A major retrospective of Grass's visual art-80 etchings, 43 lithographs, 96 drawings and 27 sculptures-has been put together for the first time in Darmstadt. In addition to seeing the fish, snails and cooks that inhabit his earlier books, exhibition visitors who ponder his clay Tablets will get an advance glimpse of the author's next novel, The Rat, set in the spiritually and politically divided Germany of the 1950s. While it may seem unusual to get a preview of a new book in a museum, Grass sees no contradiction. Says...
Every evening, during the rounds of diwaniyas, a sort of casual salon of talk and coffee sipping that begins in the late evening, the Kuwaitis ponder their uncertain future. Says one politician: "We fear that Kuwait's freedom will be the victim of these attacks on our tankers." But it is more than just Kuwaiti freedom that is at stake. It is Kuwait itself. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Kuwait and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...possible use by participants in the hospital's in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program. Last week hospital officials were stunned to learn that two of their charges could be heirs to a million-dollar fortune. The news set armchair ethicists around the world abuzz and forced Australian policymakers to ponder an area of the law that is indeed embryonic...