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...lilting scenes of John McGahern’s new novel By The Lake. The story recounts a year of everyday labors and occasional intrigues in a small village. A meditative eye for the details that color passing moments gives this novel a quiet integrity, unrivaled by works that impatiently resort to plot twists, muddled psychology and politics for their excitement. McGahern’s story recalls that while societies seem to be progressing and deteriorating at a dizzying pace, most people are just trying to live their lives as best they...
...Iraq's retaining chemical or biological weapons as a defense of last resort highlights one of a number of tough calculations facing the Bush administration as it seeks to come up with a plan to oust Saddam and replace him with a stable and friendly regime. The President has reportedly asked his advisors to come up with a war plan by mid-April, although everything from assembling a massive invasion force to securing the consent of the vital allies suggests that D-Day might not come before next winter...
...this current Middle Eastern violence really the result of Clinton unreasonably raising expectations? There has been plenty of valid of criticism in foreign policy circles of his micromanaging of the peace process. Clinton allowed himself to be drawn in as the mediator of first resort, which diminished the gravity of his own interventions - witness the fact that the President spent almost a full week at Wye River in 1998 cajoling Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu into a relatively minor set of agreements. It's also quite possible to make the case that Camp David brought on the moment of crisis...
...this is a deep aversion to - almost a loathing of - military force. For many modern Europeans, war is a ghastly, primitive business. (Every time I call my 95-year-old aunt in Britain, I get a little lecture on the evils of cluster bombs.) War is a last resort; those ready to use it quickly - or, worse, who appear to enjoy it - are not to be trusted. That's why Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a folksy hero in the U.S., is considered a swaggeringly dangerous Rambo by many Europeans...
Cooking classes for youngsters are now available across the country--in cookware stores, at cooking schools, in your home. "Children know much more about food than they did 10 years ago," says Riki Senn, the cooking-school coordinator at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulfur Springs, W.Va. Her school offers gourmet-cooking classes for children during the summer, teaching recipes for treats like fruit salsa and chocolate-dipped strawberries...