Not a lot is the simple answer provided by Smith.
The answer, provided, more or less, by Reid himself, is: because he regards him so highly.
The answer, provided by a string of experts, was a neurosis called pregnancy denial.
The answer provided by the Hummer H2 comes in a smaller overall package, but with lots of extras.
The answer provided this question by Homer's Coat's production of An Iliad is luminous in its humanism.
The answer provided by Endocrinology 101 is that we are simply hungrier than we were in the 70's, and the reason is physiological more than psychological.
The answer provided by the arms industry, echoed by supine MPs and partisan trade unions, is that the industry provides employment and exports.
The answer, provided to Mr. Obama with bullet points, was yes — or "a genuine opportunity," as he put it in a speech on Iraq this week.
Verona's question may or may not be disingenuous, but the answer provided by "Away We Go," the slack little road comedy in which it arises, is unambiguous.
So when a Washington Post journalist earlier this week asked if he was "worried about climate change" his answer provided a rare opportunity for assessment.
Certainly a lot of ink has been spilled on the question, but the answer provided by hundreds of studies, subjected to meta-analysis, is no.
