By saying unequivocally that conscription is not an option, the Bush administration and the Rumsfeld Pentagon, while propitiating the ghost of Vietnam, are also profiting from the success of the all-volunteer military.

About this time, the old constable of Dundee being aged and sickly, was carried by coach, unable to ride, to Edinburgh, because he was an outstander against the covenant.

Seeing the trip cord of a bouncing Betty nearby gave us cold chills, and we moved all the more slowly through the woods.

But at long last the summer, high summer, was upon them, with the promised arrival of the four firstcomers to the old manor house.