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...this for 50s comedies. Back then America still had a few social conventions and sexual taboos to serve as hurdles or brick walls for the plot. Here, we're to assume that the only reason Dan and Marie don't tell the family they have a thing for each other is that they don't want to hurt Mitch's feelings. The real reason is: they're in a movie, and there wouldn't be one if the characters didn't do implausible things. Hence the creakiest gimmick in all of fiction, the HIBK (Had I But Known) ploy...
...Green The article "Green Motors" was more fantasy than reality [Oct. 22]. GM, like the other American car manufacturers, misread the market, and foreign car manufacturers have filled the void. I remember when President Jimmy Carter first took office and called a meeting of the major American carmakers to tell them we needed small, fuel-efficient cars. Their response was that there was no market for them. Several years ago I saw a magazine advertisement for GM that showed all of its models and indicated that each would soon be available in a hybrid version. Great promise - no delivery. When...
...presence in Iraq. But if what Crocker suspects is true, Tehran might be more responsive to U.S. pleas than its rhetoric suggests - though even for a seasoned Middle East diplomat like Crocker, who began his career as a foreign service officer in Iran, it's hard to tell...
...money man, said from behind his desk across the room. Each wrinkled sign bears one of those questions, and Obey asks them so often that he can recite them by heart. "The first is: If what you want costs money, are you willing to go home and tell your friends that we need to cut back on the size of the President's tax cuts so there is room for it in the budget?" The second, and related question, goes as follows: "Is there anything you want me to do for somebody else that is more important than whatever...
...Iranians are convinced we are arming and funding the PJAK. Sources tell me that our military meets the PJAK to collect intelligence on Iran, particularly concerning Iran's meddling in Iraq. Money no doubt changes hands. But who knows whether it goes to the PJAK to buy bullets or snitches. Under Title X, the U.S. code that governs the war in Iraq, the military is not obligated to sort out what the money is used for. Anyhow, who really cares in the middle...