Word: switchings
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...basics are so sound. Clowes has a clean, sharp drawing style that varies from big-headed cartooniness to more straight-forward realism. The layouts are simple and easy to read, but varied enough to prevent eye-fatigue. He also continues his experimentation with color schemes. Sometimes opposing pages will switch from full color to monochrome. It can even be called pretty...
Turncoat, hero, ingrate, revolutionary. Folks around Capitol Hill called Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords a lot of things this year, but as of May 24 there's one thing they couldn't call him: Republican. Jeffords' sudden switch to independent--he saw the G.O.P. moving too far right of his moderate viewpoint--ended the Republican Party's control of Congress. "Democrats got to set the agenda instead of reacting to a Republican President," says a senior Senate Democratic aide. "That is a huge change...
...Republican turned independent Senator Jim Jeffords was praised for a party switch that "changed the way business will be done in Washington for years to come. The shift in the balance of power has, fortunately, compelled some politicians, President Bush included, to become statesmen." And speaking of statesmen, Tony Blair had a good turnout, not only for being a good ally, but mostly "for doing a better job speaking than G.W. Bush ever could" while doing...
...will take cabs. More taxis means more decent transitional jobs for those displaced by Sept. 11 or any other part of the economic downturn that has hit New York City so hard. Less traffic means cab drivers will make more money working shorter shifts. (Mike, we may want to switch temporarily to a "zone" fare system to keep everybody calm until the market forces settle...
...Pakistan, where he built supply lines between anti-Soviet Afghan guerrillas and American backers. When the mujahedin took power in 1992, he returned to serve for two years as Deputy Foreign Minister in the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani. Disillusionment with the infighting of that regime led him to switch over, briefly, to the Taliban, which once tried to make him its U.N. ambassador, a post he declined. But Karzai, an Islamic moderate, soon turned against the Taliban's stringencies, especially its brutal restrictions on women, and returned to Pakistan. Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth, a friend...