A government with even a nodding acquaintance with competence and good sense would have launched an all-out war against Al Qaeda, not Iraq, in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11.

These sketches indicate ruminatings mysterious to us.

The law notwithstanding, memoirs show the atmosphere of the French court of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries to have been irreligious, with male homosexuality and tribady open and well-represented.

As a brief background, the gun disarms originally taught to S.A.C. Airmen as part of the Combative Measures program were taken from Kodokan Goshin-Jutsu.