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...shouldn't surprise that Waugh batted better than he writes. His tour diaries have been bestsellers, but Out of My Comfort Zone reads like a compilation of these - a superdiary in which almost everything is deemed worth a mention. Waugh's probably never heard of Ernest Hemingway's theory of omission, which is basically that prose reads better when the obvious is left out. Hemingway would have choked on Waugh's cavalcade of superfluous adjectives, and on sentences like, "Failure can lead you into a dark abyss of gloom and depression." But then Hemingway couldn't play the cut shot...
President George W. Bush shouldn't have been too surprised by the angry-and ultimately violent-welcome he received Friday at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. After pledging during his 2000 election campaign to correct Washington's indifference to Latin America, the President is viewed as having all but turned his back on the region after most Latin American capitals declined to back his invasion of Iraq. But Bush's hemispheric cold shoulder has backfired: It created a political vacuum that has been largely filled by neo-leftists like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
...orthodoxy shouldn't be surprising, for two reasons. One, Rice notes in an afterword that since 1998 she has been a passionate Catholic. And two, it was Rice's profound earnestness, her unwinking commitment to the material, that brought such power to her handling of vampires (who, like Jesus, one could argue, are beings of a dual, quasi-human nature). At the time vampires were in danger of sliding into camp, and they needed her earnestness. Jesus, not quite so much...
...what a mouth. On any given day, anyone within earshot is likely to get treated to an Ozzie-style peroration on such subjects as Hugo Chávez, the Pope, Elián González, why Ozzie shouldn't have to stand in line to get his U.S. citizenship papers, and how he would be just as content to be somewhere else, fishing. Ozzie told a local newspaper during a late-season slump, "We stink!" A few days later, he added, "Good thing my players don't listen to what I was saying to the media." But his players compete hard...
...financial cost of the Iraq war is driving the U.S. ever further into debt. The war looks as if it can't be won. The only course is to get out. If you can't finance a war, then you shouldn't be fighting one. Marvin Shane Winnipeg, Canada...