What if it’s all just a game? In recent weeks, George W. Bush has accused Saddam Hussein of bad sportsmanship in Iraq’s dealings with the United Nations and the western powers. According to Mr. Bush, Mr. Hussein advances and retreats, “crawfishes,” cooperates one day and impedes the next. George Bush is right, that’s exactly what […]

Warren Anderson is a wealthy man. He lives near the Atlantic Ocean. In the summer months, Mr. Anderson and his wife Lillian live in the Hamptons, on Long Island. In winter, they live near the Florida coast. In 1984, Warren Anderson was chief executive officer of the Union Carbide Corporation. In December of that year, […]

Once upon a time, in Washington DC, I was invited to join a weekly poker game. The first week, I found myself in a cash game with no limit on bets or raises. I rarely got to see the cards of the successful gambler that night, because the outcome of more hands was determined by […]

Remember Play-Doh? It’s been several decades since I was intimate with Play-Doh, but every so often I’m near a small person who pops the lid off a can and the aroma sends me back to Mrs. Sibs’s kindergarten class. For nearly 50 years, children have been modeling, mashing, squishing, sculpting and let’s not forget eating, […]