Word: trails
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...father's legacy and the record of some of his most senior lieutenants aside, Iraq policy is a difficult one for President-elect Bush. Tough talk on the campaign trail about tightening sanctions and punishing Saddam doesn't translate into a workable policy. And the strategic reasoning that stopped the last Bush administration from destroying the regime in Baghdad - that it would break apart the Iraqi state, dramatically destabilizing the region that supplies 40 percent of the world's oil - hasn't changed. The challenge for a Bush Administration will be to restore U.S. leadership of the international community...
...agreed. I have watched a number of politicians (including the departing president) who have left behind a trail of the bleached bones of former friends. I might have added, "It's not such a hot idea to be friends with a writer, either. A writer will write you up. A writer, like a politician, lives under a mighty temptation to use people, even friends. Maybe especially friends, since the writer knows their stories best...
...literary thriller: a detective story with geopolitical ramifications. That, at least, is the formula followed with considerable, nail-biting skill in Robert Wilson's A Small Death in Lisbon (Harcourt; 440 pages; $25). The author constructs a murder mystery that cannot be solved without following a winding trail through a considerable and bloody swath of 20th century history...
Mortenson, though, cites U.S. Census measures indicating that the gap cuts across racial and income groups. Moreover, he and others argue, boys as a group trail girls at many stages of K-12 achievement: boys tend to earn lower grades and are less likely to earn a high school diploma. They score marginally higher on the SAT, but only 65% of boys who apply are admitted to college, vs. 69% of girls...
Also on the campaign trail yesterday, Barkley, Smith and Zanotelli unveiled new rounds of campaign posters which they said were modeled on those of Paul A. Gusmorino...