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...Buick Lacrosse, a traditional full-size passenger car in the near luxury segment, is GM's answer to some very tough competition from Acura, Lexus and Lincoln. GM, which rode to glory on full-size cars but over the past two decades let its edge slip away, insists the new Lacrosse is quieter, handles better and is more powerful and more luxurious than the competition. Early reviews have been favorable...
...rare opportunity in 2002 to take a road trip through North Korea. I had been invited into the country by Pyongyang along with several other foreign correspondents, and even though we rode in a modern bus, the journey itself was like going back in time. From the capital, we drove down narrow country roads for nearly six hours, through small farming hamlets of white homes in neat rows. Men in army-green clothing worked the fields by hand; there were few tractors or animals in sight. Trucks with sacks of U.S. food aid passed...
Jarvis created a similarly impregnable institution. When he rode the wave of anger over skyrocketing property-tax assessments to pass Proposition 13 in 1978, he included a two-thirds vote requirement for the passage of any new taxes in California - an insurmountable obstacle built on populist allergy to any kind of new levy. Beholden to a tax-averse electorate, the state's liberals and moderates have attempted to live with Proposition 13 while continuing to provide the state services Californians expect - freeways, higher education, prisons, assistance to needy families and, very important, essential funding to local government and school districts...
...dinner and a Broadway show is idiotically attacked as financially wasteful by Republican National Committee, which, if memory serves, registered no public concern about the cost to the public of George W. Bush's 77 jaunts to the Texas boonies where he cut lots of brush, ran around and rode bikes in sweltering heat, and ignored various warnings of impending disasters...
...walked the red carpet with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to the foot of an airport escalator. There, the President paused a fleeting moment in the blistering desert heat, ceding the right of way to his host. But the King would have none of it. So the two men rode together, feet on the same step. The extent to which they're in step on Obama's bigger agenda, including an effort to relaunch the Middle East peace process and repatriate Guantánamo detainees, remains to be seen...