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...worsening turmoil in Iraq after so many friends of the U.S. sent warnings about what lay ahead. No amount of advice would sway the Administration's headlong gallop to war. Perhaps now there will be a more reflective process for creating foreign policy. The U.S. must accept that its system is not the only form of humane and caring government and that some people conditioned by centuries of culture want other solutions. MARCUS KNEEN Zesfontein, South Africa...
...passport to document her travels. The valets in Nashville, Tenn., had bones for Summer, and they let her owner know whether other dogs had checked into the hotel and what floor they were on. "She loved the hotel. When she got in the room, she would gallop around and get up on the bed. She was like a kid," Dickson says. "I got her the steamed vegetables one night, and another night I splurged on the doggie filet mignon. I felt bad she was stuck...
...likely to prove cautionary for other filmmakers. There was no shortage of Sancho Panzas on this shoot. But in show biz, the one-eyed visionary is always (or until it's too late) king. His fellow adventurers' realism and reasonableness could not prevent Don Quixote's gallant gallop to ruin. --By Richard Schickel
Regrettably, despite whatever equality should exist, women still must prove themselves to the American public more than their male counterparts solely because of their gender. While a Gallop poll indicated that the number of Americans who said they would vote for a qualified woman president rose from 30 percent in 1945 to over 90 percent in 1999, 51 percent of those asked still believed a man would do a better job than a woman when it came to leading the nation during a crisis, underlining the belief that women lack credibility as commanders-in-chief precisely because they are women...
...grizzlies to the American wilderness, I'm looking for just one bear. The snow is so deep that I can't positively identify the tracks as belonging to a black bear or a grizzly. At one point the bear catches my scent and breaks into a gallop down the mountain. And--knowing it's being tracked--the bear hurries down out of the snow, and I quickly lose the trail. The next day, the sun returns, the snow melts, as do the tracks, vanishing, as if they never were...