Carry Laughter With You Wherever You Go.

The Prime Minister Found Something Hopeful In The Man's Eyes And Manner. The 30 Or So People Who Run This World Analyze One Another That Way And Then Make Decisions Of Life And Death For Us. Scary, But True.

The Problems Seem So Easy Out There On The Stump. Deficits Shrink With A Rhetorical Flourish.

We Love The Blather And Boast, The Charge And Counter-charge Of Campaigning. Governing Is A Tougher Deal.

Reagan "has Conducted An Arms Race On Earth," Boomed Mondale. A Race Generally Implies Two Parties. The Soviets Contributed A Little Bit To This Problem, If Mondale Had Not Noticed.

In Just 20 Years Terrorism, Communications, The Jet Plane And The Increase Of Wealth And Knowledge Have Forced, To Varying Degrees, World Leaders Into A Haunted And Secret Peerage Whose Links With The People They Guide Are Meticulously Cleansed And Staged.