Handicapping the Gap and Key Seam States

Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 14 April

A quick tour around the dial before I get back to my Director's Commentary series on the book, which I am rushing to finish by Sunday. I can feel the crush of events getting ever closer WRT the release of the book on 27 April. Putnam is planning to run me as ragged as possible promoting the book in DC, NYC and Boston for roughly ten days, then it's a big conference down in the Big Easy, and right after that the Esquire article comes out on newsstands and I'm being told they want to push the hell out of that. So I am shoving all sorts of posts out the door in the direction of my webmaster, hoping to get everything on line that I want at this site before the deluge begins.

Today's references:

"Crime Pays, Terrorists Find: Group in Europe Smuggles Immigrants and Forges Passports," by Glenn Simpson et. al, Wall Street Journal, 14 April, p. A13.

"U.S. Squeezes Cuba Travelers: Castro Cited as Target, but Policy Seems Aimed at Florida Voters," by Neil King, Wall Street Journal, 14 April, p. A4.

"In South Africa, Democracy May Breed One-Party Rule," by Michael Wines, New York Times, 14 April, p. A3.

"Cruel Choices: We Can Save Tens of Thousands in Sudan," by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, 14 April, p. A25.

"Indian Services Giant Hits $1 Billion Mark," by Saritha Rai, New York Times, 14 April, p. W1.

"In China, Troubling Signs Of an Overheating Economy," by Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 April, p. C1.