"Contention is as much a part of their legacy as their principles," Richard Brookhiser writes in his diverting "What Would the Founders Do?" — an entertaining exercise in posing present-day problems as questions, and then attempting to answer them.
While the hand-carved canoes, baskets and smoked-salmon bannocks (a kind of local panini) are diverting, what really makes this 30,000-square-foot museum shine is the friendly aboriginal "youth ambassadors," who welcome visitors with native songs and totem-carving exhibitions.
"Numerous homes were flooded, though many were saved by fire crews pumping and diverting what was mainly surface water," he said.
Indeed, it can be argued correctly that foundations siphon billions from the public coffers by allowing the wealthy to divert what would be taxable funds to institutions they control or influence.
We are diverted from what we're looking at — a naked woman — to what we're supposed to be looking at.
And skilled propagandists, like Bannon, whip up nationalist fervor to keep the masses diverted from what is really going on.
The fear is that attention is being diverted from what is an acute problem in many of India's state-run or state-assisted schools.
In 2007, when Mr. Murdoch set his sights on Dow Jones and its prize, The Wall Street Journal, his attention was diverted from what had been his obsession, nurturing MySpace.
"[But] the carbon price has to become simple and not become a new type of sub-prime tool which will be diverted from what is its initial purpose: to encourage real investment in real low-carbon technology".
And an occasional update would arrive in my e-mail in box, measuring progress more by the number of players diverted from what Fergerson called "a track to nowhere" than by the amount of wins and losses.
We tried to head straight back to the hotel but were diverted by what turned out to be the most exciting sight of the day so far for the kids -- a small barge with V-shaped pincers on the front scouring the canals for floating debris.
