Word: seldomly
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...TRUTH TELLERS SELDOM WIN Most voters don't like to hear unpleasant truths. And God forbid you ever imply that voters are lazy and don't understand the issues. If you insist on telling the truth, at least do it with a smile. Even the press prefers this. Happy warriors almost always trump truth tellers. Which leads to Rule...
...narrow band of us who feel like we're shouting to reach the public over the e-mail chime and PlayStation 2. Our next President may preside over the first catastrophic terrorist attack and will appoint Supreme Court Justices who may completely reshape the social landscape. But these questions seldom come up in the national political conversation. Today's ambitious girl from the sticks might think Silicon Valley a more happening place...
...relationship with Arafat, and because he has played a little role in the peace process under Barak, his relationship with the Palestinian leader hasn't been as strained by recent events as Barak's has. Peres was able to give Arafat a big dose of empathy, which he seldom gets from Israeli leaders. Peres told us today that he had tried to put himself in Arafat's shoes and understand the problem from his side." What does Peres see as the steps that will follow if the cease-fire holds...
Will the coyotes survive, the farm be freed from its toxic crop, the insects be allowed to regulate their own population balances? Did God make little green organic apples? Kingsolver doesn't bother much with suspense in unfolding these matters; right thinking may seldom triumph in the real world, but it's her novel and she'll run it the way she sees fit. Her heroines are genuinely interesting, however, even when they're patiently teaching lessons to the benighted, and the author sometimes pokes a little gentle fun at their high-mindedness. When Deanna laboriously captures a moth...
Males have not, as a rule, joined Kingsolver's fan clubs, and this novel suggests a reason: they are seldom the central figures in the author's world. Although Deanna and Lusa never meet, they share subterranean female experiences. Both recognize that men are attracted to them, unknowingly, because of pheromones; both ovulate in synch with the full moon. On a steamy, "oversexed" Fourth of July evening, Lusa feels her widow's grief subsiding as her male in-laws play with fireworks: "We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying...