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More uniformly appealing are the potato and celery root pancakes, served with a shmear of sour cream. These were unexpectedly sweet and managed to achieve an ideal crispiness while remaining tender inside, as good as the best latke, but also distinctly its own delicacy. Cubes of cinnamon-spiced pears piled on either side of the plate make a pretty garnish, certainly, but add a bit too much sugar to the already dulcet discs...
...most common canards of those who oppose President Bush’s strategy of reforming the Middle East is that the “root causes” of terrorism must be removed before we can expect to see any progress. The prime “root cause” bemoaned by the left has always been poverty, because people who are poor are supposedly desperate. Poor people, they say, carry out acts of violence and terror because they simply have nothing to lose—they do not fear death because life could scarcely contain more misery. However, like...
Albert is unhappy and he isn’t sure why. Sadly, we never care. The root of Albert’s malaise, I think, is that he has sold out. He has entered into a partnership with Huckabees, a chain of K-Mart-like stores, to throw some muscle behind his coalition to save a local wetland. Russell’s sly appropriation of American corporate-speak provide the best moments in the Huckabees script: therapy would be unbecoming for a corporate executive, so Brad rationalizes his sessions with “existential therapists” by insisting they...
...immeasurably tragic to some hard-line Texas conservatives. But we wonder whether strong-arming publishers on this point is truly the most responsible use of taxpayer money. For once, it might be preferable not to snuff out the seeds of tolerance before, heaven forbid, they take root in the public schools of Texas...
...Moral Values” does not seem, by the numbers, to equate with religiosity, geography or stance on social issues, it seems more likely that voters defined “Moral Values” as something deeper, more fundamental and ethereal. Morality, after all, is, at root, the human mechanism for evaluating right and wrong. And President Bush was the one candidate in this election who made clear that he saw the stark difference between right and wrong, good and evil in the world. President Bush is a man who, in his own words, “call[s] evil...