Vice Versa

Jorge Mas Canosa makes U.S. policy on Cuba. Next question.This country needs a new national pastime. If the boys of America could vote with their feet, it would be soccer.Bill will deal on health and hang tough on Cuba, or vice versa, but not both.If there are bribes to be made from fixing up Baltimore public housing, how come it isn't fixed up?

We're leaving Somalia and going into Haiti. Next year, vice versa.At last, a court ruled that killing a confused foreign student who comes to the door to ask for directions is wrong, even in Louisiana.Sauerbrey calls Glendening a liberal. He called her a conservative. It's getting nasty.A new mayor of Washington gives owner Jack Kent Cooke a chance to save himself from the folly of moving the Redskins to Laurel and opening RFK in DC to the CFL.

What's visionary is not always art, and vice versa.Bosnian Serbs were sold out by Serbia in the Dayton accord but will comply because their own army never existed. It was always Serbia's.With the collapse of the Powell and Specter balloons, moderate liberals have found their place in the Republican Party: outside, looking in.After she snared the Prince, Diana did not live happily ever after. Yet. This fairy tale is not over.

The Great Architect is taken from us and we really hardly knew him.Chairman Mao sounded paranoid 30 years ago but he was right: Deng Xiaoping really was taking the capitalist road.Big-county executives don't mind how much money is spent on city school children as long as more is spent on theirs.Trustees must face whether to sell the Peale paintings to save the City Life Museums, or vice versa.Pub Date: 2/21/97

In theory, China is taking over Hong Kong. History will record that it was the other way round.The Supremes could not find the right to suicide in the Constitution, which rarely stopped them before.It turns out the FBI ran the Mob in Boston, or vice versa.Just when we were congratulating ourselves on Tiger, the best golfer around turns out to be some South African white guy named Ernie.Pub Date: 6/30/97

Don't worry about Dick Cheney's health. George W. Bush is n the wings, educating himself to take over on a minute's notice. Banning smoking in state prisons and in their yards is cruel and unusual punishment. When Jiang Zemin decreed that China's capitalists may become Communists what he actually meant was vice versa. Be patriotic. Boycott firecrackers made by unpaid Chinese school children.

If Doc Berger isn't listening to what Dutch is saying, and vice versa, it's Baltimore County government as usual.When Alan Greenspan looks ahead and sees inflation, what he really sees is a Republican president.A lot of congressmen have taken a good look at this country and concluded that there aren't enough assault rifles.When San Diego meets San Francisco, the ground moves.Imagine Maryland has an "education governor," who does not know how to spell either Paris or Glendening.

State senators believe that a third baby born to a welfare mother has only itself to blame.Japanese tourists have learned that if the earthquakes don't get you, the Californians will.Italians elected a loudmouth billionaire for prime minister in the hope that he's too rich to steal.Maybe Israel and the PLO should teach the ANC and Inkatha about conflict resolution. Maybe vice versa.

The time to get out of Japanese stocks is five years ago.The strongest Asian currency is the U.S. dollar, more's the pity for U.S. exports.Just because the U.S. has not paid its share into the IMF rescue fund is no reason Bill cannot pontificate to potential borrowers.The exploding deer population is a growing threat to the exploding automobile population and vice versa.Pub Date: 11/26/97

Some strange fads have gripped education over the years, but shutting school in May and going back in August is the weirdest yet.Lord help the U.S. when hostile little powers acquire cruise missiles as good as ours.Imagine dwelling on Ms. Lewinsky with the left side of your brain and Mr. bin Laden with the right, or vice versa.Cheer up. Chernomyrdin is back.Pub Date: 8/26/98