Why Should We Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

Disney World Has Acquired By Now Something Of The Air Of A National Shrine. American Parents Who Don't Take Their Children There Sense Obscurely That They Have Failed In Some Fundamental Way, Like Muslims Who Never Made It To Mecca.

A British Lawyer Would Like To Think Of Himself As Part Of That Mysterious Entity Called The Law; An American Lawyer Would Like A Swimming Pool And Two Houses.

Canada Is Not So Much A Country As A Clothesline Nearly 4,000 Miles Long. St John's In Newfoundland Is Closer To Milan, Italy Than To Vancouver.

Living In New York Is Like Being At Some Terrible Late-night Party. You're Tired, You've Had A Headache Since You Arrived, But You Can't Leave Because Then You'd Miss The Party.

The Chinese Do Make Vast Quantities Of Wine For Home Consumption, But You Wouldn't Want To Drink It Yourself.