Miss America Takes a Risk

Ever alert to current events, the Wichita bureau notes that the new Miss America won her honor with a bit of opera but hopes to use her scholarship money towards law school.  We're wondering if opera mightn't be the safer choice.

Doppelganger

I just now tumbled to the fact that Edward Lucas and Edward Luce are not the same guy. Damn, I thought that was a lot of knowledge for one head.

Tedious clarification: I read Luce's In Spite of the Gods with great profit while rattling around Rajastan a while back in a bus. I'm getting comparable enjoyment out of Lucas' The New Cold War in prep for a trip to Russia later this spring.