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...rehabilitation of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "The wide-scope stuff tends to be soft and mushy," says a National Security Council officer. "It just doesn't do us much good." A CIA official concedes that "there's a lot of bureaucratic ass-covering that goes on when guys write long-range stuff. They don't want to be wrong, so they tend to be glib and platitudinous." Yet many Government officials say that CIA experts are much more explicit and insightful when they make verbal assessments-in meetings or on the phone...
...Bard. It is he who wakens the star-vexed lovers and sets them in pursuit of those who will scornfully spurn them. It is he who inspires the Queen of the Fairies, Titania (Maggie Smith), to dote in adoration on Bottom (Alan Scarfe) after the head of an ass has been grafted...
...expelled six months before graduation for cheating on a history exam (he glanced at a course outline during a break). "You don't know what loneliness is," he says, "until you drive into your driveway at home, in the Deep South, on Christmas Eve, having just had your ass booted out of a military academy." He went on to Georgia State University, where he earned a degree in political science...
...make a studied effort to deflate pretentiousness. Says Powell: "During the campaign, every time we got cocky, we got kicked on our ass." They also disavow any ravenous hunger for political prestige. "The last thing I want to do," says Jordan, "is spend the second half of my life reminiscing about my days of power in Washington...
...could find out who he was to get him to stop. Through the Matthews proctor the freshman dean's office let four or five possible Tarzans know they wanted no more yells. "We admired his sense of dramatic, but the crowds were getting to be a pain in the ass," Young says. "We told him he could have two more chances...