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I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.
At age six or later, when the growth slows, the already derailed connections may no longer be able to incorporate experiences.
On This Week , Birch focused on civil rights and job discrimination, only to be derailed by George Will's first question: "Does basic, equal, civil rights include the right to marry?"
Tobacco CEOs can't even buy congressional friends--an unprecedented spectacle that astounds Cokie Roberts (ABC's This Week ). Perhaps Congress can unilaterally implement the derailed provisions, hope a few (Nina Totenberg and Jack Germond, Inside Washington ; Al Hunt, CNN's Capital Gang ). Thomas disagrees, arguing that the Supreme Court will ixnay cigarette advertising restrictions on First Amendment grounds.
The cynical spin: Now that the peace process is back on track, terrorists are staging bomb attacks in Israel to make sure it's derailed again.