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Most journalists do not understand how clever these operatives are. For instance, reporters think it fiendishly clever to ask the flip-flop question. ("Sir, in 1986 you voted to permit the building of falafel stands in the Grand Canyon. Last year you opposed the bill. Isn't there a contradiction here?" Correct response: "Not at all, Ted. You're overlooking a key distinction...
Using laws rather than friendly persuasion to alter Europe's approach, says Sir Leon Brittan, trade commissioner at the E.U. in Brussels, "establishes the unwelcome principle that one country can dictate the foreign policy of others." U.S. allies believe that neither of the new laws is likely to inflict any significant pain on Cuba, Iran or Libya, much less improve their objectionable behavior. The Turkish gas deal is a case in point. "These laws have nothing to do with fighting terrorism," says French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette. Of course, the Europeans do have an economic interest in retaining links...
Sound implausible? Consider the alternatives. Sir Fred Hoyle, the distinguished British astronomer, favors an even more radical theory. The idea, known as panspermia, is that billions of years ago, the solar system was peppered by biological "seeds," which took root wherever conditions were right. That would explain how life may have arisen at roughly the same time on Earth and on Mars. But it also raises awkward questions about where those seeds came from and what, or who, sent them flying through space...
...DIED. SIR FRANK WHITTLE, 89, engineer who in the 1930s developed the first jet engine for Britain, just as Hans J.P. von Ohain independently built one for Germany; in Columbia, Maryland...
...Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...