... 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.

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

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

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.

Never assume the obvious is true.

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.