RUSSIA: Moscow police have defused two car bombs. A suspect was arrested and confessed. He since has died of a heart attack, which strikes me as a very effective start to a war on terrorism.

CUBA: The BBC which usually praises Former Czech president Vaclav Havel is oh so carefully neutral when he predicts the end of Fidel Castro and encourages Cuban "anti-Castro activists." (The BBC reserves the term "dissidents" for those they agree with or for whom they have sympathy.)

SPAIN: Draft legislation for divorce in Spain would not only be no-fault, but no-judge either with the added bonus that Divorce will be final in two to six months. "According to 2002 data from Spain's state-run INE statistics office, the number of single-parent households nearly equals that of families comprising a couple with three or more children." What a surprise.