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...lonely Kurd, exultant in the local paper after Saddam is hanged. Or the local mobster of Kazakh extraction. Or the Nepalese bureaucrat on a city government exchange program, whose father’s untimely death necessitated the retrieval of warm bull’s urine for mourning rites...
...film focuses on Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a composite of historical figures, who starts out wanting to be a poet and ends up being the bureaucrat at the center of some of the CIA's most notorious activities. Damon is terrific in the role--all-knowing, never overtly expressing a feeling. Indeed, so is everyone else in this intricate, understated but ultimately devastating account of how secrets, when they are left to fester, can become an illness, dangerous to those who keep them, more so to nations that base their policies on them...
...charge, President Bush can forget about privatizing Social Security." Andrew Biggs Two days after the midterms, Bush nominated Biggs for deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration. As a think-tank scholar, he pushed hard for private accounts. He kept mum as a lower-level Social Security bureaucrat, but Biggs' promotion sends a clear signal that Administration officials might not be as flexible as they are saying...
...surging political power of India's lower castes, the rise and (apparent) decline of Hindu nationalism and the decline and (apparent) resurgence of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty. Luce also takes a stab at explaining the big regional differences in economic development within India. For example, a senior bureaucrat in the southern state of Tamil Nadu candidly tells Luce that about 30% of public funds meant for promoting literacy, roads and electrification in his state are "diverted"?embezzled by bureaucrats?versus 70% in the north. The result: half of Tamil Nadu now lives in cities, where the standard of living tends...
...aftermath of a young couple’s assassination in this way: “So the National Park Service concluded that a deranged shooter had picked a target at random…People who used the path were urged to be cautious.” Only a government bureaucrat would consider this gripping...