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Americans Are Fascinated By Their Own Love Of Shopping. This Does Not Make Them Unique. It's Just That They Have More To Buy Than Most Other People On The Planet. And It's Also An Affirmation Of Faith In Their Country.

Curiously, It Is Hard Not To Be A Little Optimistic About The Future For Zimbabwe (as Nobody At All Calls It Yet, Except In Political Speeches). The Fear Is Not That There Will Be Mass Slaughter Of The Whites, Followed By Their Flight To South Africa And The Collapse Of The Economy, But That The Need To Retain White Confidence May Mean That The Blacks Are Badly Disappointed.

When You Visit A Foreign City You Are In It, But Not Of It, Separated By A Glass Wall. Once, While A Student, I Was Getting Dressed In My Ground-floor Room When A Family Of Italians Crossed The Grass To Watch, As If I Were Laid On For Their Amusement And Instruction.

The Formal Washington Dinner Party Has All The Spontaneity Of A Japanese Imperial Funeral.

I'm Often Amazed At The Way Politicians, Who Spend Hours Poring Over Opinion Poll Results In A Desperate Attempt To Discover What The Public Thinks, Are Certain They Know Precisely What God's Views Are On Everything.