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Let's be frank. Neither George W. Bush nor John Kerry, had he made the White House instead, was any kind of threat to nudge out Thomas Jefferson as our most intellectual president. But, for some of us more than others, there should be a statute of limitations on college grades. Here you are at age 58, Bush, or 61, Kerry, solidly set on a distinguished career as a U.S. president or U.S. senator and suddenly - THWACK! - your mediocre college grades get hashed out in the press (Kerry) or rehashed (Bush). The New Yorker, not the friendliest venue for...

<p>Within the first hours of the war, Iraq fired Scud missiles — that Hans Blix could not find and Saddam claimed not to have — at American and British troops.</p> <p>Don't expect the anti-war crowd to notice this. Up to the very last minute, they were arguing inspections had "worked." Having been proved so wrong, they will not reconsider. They will instead do what they always do — assume that the world will forget and move on to the next thing.</p>