[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.