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Jerry Kilgore, a Republican candidate for Governor whose mountain twang kept him out of his own ads for much of the campaign, was looking starched and chipper Sunday as he shook hands outside the Falls Church, a 273-year-old Episcopal congregation near Washington that has a number of Bush Administration luminaries in its pews. Falls Church is a Democratic oasis, but these were his people. "In Falls Church, of all places, a landslide!" Kilgore said delightedly before heading inside. He is Baptist, but joined fellow parishioners in kneeling for prayers. The service ran long and so he sneaked...
Maybe it was ominous that Air Force One had a rocky landing as we came into Mar Del Plata, Argentina. The plane shook violently as we approached this coastal city that will host the Summit of the Americas, where President Bush faces a difficult time in discussions with Latin American heads of state. He's still being dogged by questions about the CIA leak investigation, while his domestic poll numbers continue to fall. And the outlook for the administration on the substance of this summit is less optimistic than in previous meetings of the leaders of the Western Hemisphere...
...interest,'' he says. ''It is not based on any feeling of affection or affiliation.'' Arafat is just as sternly pragmatic. ''He is the boss, and without him, the accord will not work. He was my enemy, but he is a man who fulfills his commitments.'' After he grudgingly shook hands with Arafat on the White House lawn, Rabin said, ''Of all the hands in the world, it was not the hand I wanted or even dreamed of touching.'' Perhaps only a man so lacking in charm can be immune to it in others. A Scotch drinker and chain smoker, Rabin...
...Klerk might be perceived as odd choices. Neither peacemaking deal is complete. Extremists on all sides threaten to destroy the arrangements, which look at times like fragile shelters being nailed together in a high wind. The regions seem just as violent now as they did before Arafat and Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, and before Mandela and De Klerk locked into their collaboration toward a new South African constitution. And yet. . . Peacemaking, like warmaking or courtship, depends upon exquisitely balanced, mysterious and usually unpredictable combinations of context, timing, luck, leadership, mood, personal needs, outside help and spending
...Dook, move to keyboards or to the second drum kit in the back of the stage while a cute female multi-instrumentalist bounced between keyboard, guitar, and a bizarre wind-instrument that looked like a cross between a clarinet and a mini-keyboard. Ninja, the fizzbomb cheerleader/singer, shook jangling bells, while Chi Taylor-Fukami rocked out from behind a drum kit twice her size. Despite the positive energy and enthusiastic solicitation of audience participation, the show had a few flaws. The song “The Ice Storm” saw a drab, misguided instrumental jam, which brought down...