Of Higher Value Than Any One Leader

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.

Sometimes I Know The Meaning Of A Word But Am Tired Of It And Feel The Need For An Unfamiliar, Especially Precise Or Poetic Term, Perhaps One With A Nuance That Flatters My Readership's Exquisite Sensitivity.

Different Regions May Require Different Strategies, As President Bush Has Noted, But Not Different Basic Principles. It's Either Collective Security Or Selective Security.

Last, But Not Least, Avoid Cliches Like The Plague.

The New, Old, And Constantly Changing Language Of Politics Is A Lexicon Of Conflict And Drama?ridicule And Reproach?pleading And Persuasion.