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Republicans had begun to feel better about the election recently after Bush got a bump in the polls, reflecting a steady decline in gas prices and a successful effort by the White House to push national-security issues to the top of the news. But by last week G.O.P. operatives...
Aside from Charles Dickens or Franz Kafka, not many novelists get their own adjective. But there is Ballardian, in Collins English Dictionary: "Resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J.G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes[an error occurred while processing this directive...
(3 of 3) This generation finds ethnic rivalries far less interesting than the economic boom. It's one of Estonia's characteristics that many of the top jobs in politics and business are held by people under 40, who were too young to have been tainted by the Soviet past...
The on-the-ground tales of torture and violence are terrifying, but even more terrifying is Ricks’ conclusion that the Bush White House wasn’t listening to generals who told them a war would need far more troops than the number Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...
Her Desperanians carry their complicated histories theatrically large-and none more so than the Phantoms of westside Pricklebush. There's matriarch Angel Day, who drags a statue of the Virgin Mary from the town dump, igniting a clan war in the process; her fish embalmer husband Norm, who dreams of...