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"The Great Equivocator" bashes CIA Director-nominee Anthony Lake as too wishy-washy to head the agency: He was soft toward the Soviets during the Cold War, he's soft toward the Chinese now, and he's scared of using force to achieve foreign-policy goals.
David Foster Wallace bashes Updike's Toward the End of Time in the New York Observer : "[S]o mind-bendingly clunky and self-indulgent that it's hard to believe the author let it be published in this kind of shape."
Conservatives weigh in: In the National Review , Jonathan Foreman bashes novelist Patrick Chamoiseau's highly praised Texaco, calling it "ponderous, self-indulgent, and overwhelmingly mediocre."
The criticism is plainly disingenuous: In two of his last three chapters, Buchanan bashes Jewish and Mexican-Americans for speaking up on behalf of Israel and Mexico.
A piece on the front page of the LAT bashes President Clinton's State of the Union promise to use $4 billion in government funds to bridge the so-called Digital Divide between wired haves and unwired have-nots.