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...there is no such danger with Walsh's club. Birtwell, the team's elder statesman this year, has made sure...
...complaint list, behind bad service.) Annoyed critics have started ranking noise levels in reviews, and it isn't uncommon to read blistering acoustics-based pans. "I was prepared for loud but not for the level I had to deal with," wrote a foodie for the American-Statesman in Austin, Texas, reviewing a Truluck's steak-and-seafood house last summer. "The noise is so overwhelming that it ruined the dining experience." Michael Bauer, food editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, carries a sound meter to rate restaurants on a four-bell scale. "New places in San Francisco often measure...
...criticism that he moved into Beit Hanoun without consulting other ministers. "No, no, we couldn't convene the Cabinet," Sharon said, brushing aside the critics. "I phoned a few ministers though." Sharon didn't phone his Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, until the operation was under way. Bypassing the elder statesman left Sharon diplomatically exposed and unable to fend off the anger of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who warned of the "risk of broader conflict" in the Middle East...
...catastrophic effects that he will not act decisively? Bush has a family he cares for, but his children and future grandchildren may have to survive in an ever more hostile atmosphere. As the most powerful individual in the world, he has the unique opportunity to enter history as the statesman who looked beyond the next election. HENRY E. VAN KETS Drongen, Belgium...
...Nixon's real hero, whom he quoted on that last day in the White House, was Teddy Roosevelt. We should be grateful that the peacemaking statesman in Nixon triumphed over the ghost of TR, who said: "No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war." Presidents are as complex as the rest...