Janice Castro
TRAVEL HAZARDS
International diplomacy is supposed to be President Bush’s strength. But after Japan, and getting gassed in Panama last week, what could go wrong next? Might be prudent to avoid the Ring of Fire.
WORD WATCH
The politically correct are endlessly inventive. A high school in Portland, Ore., described a song as a “spiritual of color.”
PAY THE $2
So many Californians attend traffic class (T.C.) after getting tickets that now they can choose from a number of entertaining forms of driver re- education: Pizza T.C., Gourmet Lunch T.C., and even Comedy T.C., where a Robin Williams videotape is shown. Next: Self-Defense T.C., the Rodney King variation.
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