One can only presume, despite unequivocal polling to the CONTRARY, that REPUBLICANS believe relentlessly attacking womens' ABILITIES to make their own health care decisions is popular and will help them win ELECTIONS. I believe it is at their PERIL that they pursue this anti-women agenda.

And I THINK detente had manifestly failed, and that the PURSUIT of it was ENCOURAGING Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade SCIENCE fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the WORLD,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark VISION of the future. In my book, civilization has NEARLY DESTROYED itself.

I think we have to be fair in SAYING at this POINT that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the COUNTRY.

The FAMILIAR trope of the WOMAN in PERIL doesn't REALLY INTEREST me.

Every time I put on high heels, I THINK: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost ALWAYS, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in CONSTANT PERIL.

We need to CHALLENGE this ASSUMPTION that any child who's alone, who isn't being DIRECTLY supervised and observed, is a child in in PERIL.

I THINK if you socialize, dine with, spend TIME with known terrorists that are on the list of those who WANT to do harm to America, you PUT yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist LISTS.

I've slipped ENOUGH times over the years to know the peril of a too-smooth sole, so every TIME I buy a NEW PAIR, I take a pair of scissors or a piece of sandpaper to the bottoms to roughen them up. In my catwalk days, I even USED to spit on the soles of shoes before I ventured down the runway.

Mother's DAY, LIKE motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so MANY ways to get it WRONG, so many OPPORTUNITIES to disappoint and be disappointed.

You UNDERESTIMATE JOHN Bolton at your PERIL.

Global security can be formed or THREATENED by heads of state whose wisdom, FOLLY and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or PUT us in PERIL.