Firstly before you even think of keeping ducks, you need a large pond or even a lake if you own a large amount of land.
A thin crop caused by a cool spring has kept down the number of pickers, but even so many are living in awful conditions, without electricity, running water, toilets or even ways of keeping their modest property safe during the day.
It is true that a Kerry victory has the biggest chance of producing gridlock: the Republicans stand little chance of losing the House, thanks to gerrymandering, and they have a better than even chance of keeping control of the Senate, where the Democrats have more vulnerable seats to defend.
And so, every five years, contesting parties and candidates attempt to woo the Indian voter with a torrent of promises--hollow promises, false promises, promises within promises and even promises of keeping promises!
Even in terms of keeping attention trained on the country, celebrity only goes so far.
Beyond that task, and the even trickier one of keeping out of jail, he had nothing to give his country, politically speaking.
The first round of the N.F.L. draft on ESPN provided another element of competition for prime-time ratings — despite a lack of genuine on-camera action to rival even an episode of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians".
The first Open at St Andrews, in 1873, took place on a waterlogged course, and in 1885 the Daily Mail spluttered that "furious and tyrannical weather has not even the advantage of keeping women away from the scene.
But the reality is the slavish adherence to a budget surplus has utterly outgrown the benefits such a move might produce even in terms of keeping our AAA credit rating.
Call it cathartic, sure, even a way of keeping sane in an insane world (as one performer here says, "We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal"), but don't confuse it with "If I Had a Hammer".
