-- Wall Street Journal, The Rise and Fall of a K Street Renegade, by Brody Mullins: Few outside Washington had ever heard of Evan Morris. Yet in the capital of wheeling and dealing, he was one of its most gifted operators. From his start as an intern in the Clinton White House, he made powerful f
few of his characters take issue with political correctness. Twice in Blood, he uses the phrase "Mexican standoff." Evan Morris, who writes The Word Detective, a website and syndicated column on language, says the phrase is "almost certainly just another entry in the long and shameful roster of U.S.