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...knowledge, and lots of jokes (most on him). "House Restoration" may stir memories of Dad's growling out back at the water pipes, of Mom's repainting the dining room yet another sickening mauve, or of your finally washing the dishes, but for Owen it is a way to replay long-gone childhood in style...
Historical parallels are never exact, of course. The Soviet Union is not fated to replay this capsule history of Germany's Weimar Republic. But the possibility cannot be dismissed either. And this time the drama might not take as long as the nine-plus years that elapsed between the failure of Adolf Hitler's 1923 beer-hall putsch and the founding of the Third Reich...
...cluster of totally independent armies would spell trouble for everyone. The Russian republic's overwhelming military might would intimidate others in the confederation. Ethnic conflicts, especially in the south, would be more likely to escalate to all-out war. And a Russian-dominated central army might invite a replay of the disaster that has befallen Yugoslavia, where the supposedly federal army is in reality a Serbian army...
Bush doesn't want a replay of 1987, when Ronald Reagan named Judge Robert Bork in July and then had to wait until after Labor Day for the Judiciary Committee to start confirmation proceedings. The delay gave Bork's critics ample time to study his record and marshal arguments against him. "As long as you're as close as we are, it's better to get the choice made so you don't get a lot of needless lobbying and pressure," Bush declared before heading for Kennebunkport. He clearly implied that he might announce his choice as early as this...
...1980s. During the most recent delay, engineers were horrified to discover, more or less by accident, that sensors in Columbia's fuel line were cracked. If one had broken loose, it could have been sucked into the spacecraft's powerful pumps, causing the ship to explode in a replay of the Challenger disaster. Apparently nobody had ever thought of checking the fuel line's sensors before...