Magazine junkies can simply purchase Samir Husni's Guide to New Consumer Magazines. As if infused with Benzedrine, the Capitol media horde scurried to engulf the conquering reformers. In place of nations, suggests John le Carre, we now have big drug companies. Carbon dioxide pollution. They meld together, with politicians straining to generate a smidgen of publicity from the stenographers of the press corps.
Some people look for love in all the wrong places, including prison.
The Defense Department seemingly has much to be worried about, with threats of terrorism, North Korean missiles, wayward submarines and the beleaguered Osprey aircraft. President Bush has been called many things, but a working mom is not one of them. Alas, there he is gracing the cover of March Working Woman. Nothing is certain in life except death, taxes and Rep. Eliot Engel, the Zelig of the U.S. Congress, showing up hours early to get face time at a de facto State of the Union address. He led a backward nation's stunning defeat of more than 100,000 Soviet soldiers in eight armored divisions, two parachute battalions and hundreds of attack helicopters.