Writers Who Used To Show

I Was Standing Next To A Famed Geo-politician When The First News Of The Argentine Attack [on The Faulkland Islands] Was Received, And Heard Him Muse Incredulously: "an Old-fashioned Naval Battle. A War Between Two Civilized Nations, Perhaps With Even A Declaration Of War, And Later A Peace Conference. Wow." No Hostages, No Nukes, No Ideologies, No Religious Fanaticism; Just A Fair-and-square War Over National Interests - Hard To Believe, In This Day And Age.

Have A Definite Opinion.

Only In Grammar Can You Be More Than Perfect.

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

[senators John Kerry & John Edwards] Have Risen High In Democratic Polls With A Brand Of Class Resentment And Soak-the-rich Rhetoric Rooted In The Old-fashioned Liberalism Of Ted Kennedy.