The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

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

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.