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...letter to Assistant Secretary Alfred L. Atherton Jr., who heads the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. It was full of encomiums about the Secretary and asked for Kissinger's cooperation in the author's research. Sheehan thought he was "laying it on a little thick," but sent the letter anyway. Atherton showed it to Kissinger, who told him to help Sheehan. Atherton preserved the fiction of not disseminating classified documents by reading aloud to Sheehan from secret memos of Kissinger's conversations. Sheehan was allowed to take notes. He later talked to many...
...apparently telling Harvard what it wants to hear is not enough. While approximately 19 per cent of all applicants are accepted to Harvard, only about 10 per cent of foreign candidates (not including foreign students applying from U.S.schools) get thick envelopes...
...concentrates on the pinnacles of power and the depths of poverty and degradation, where only a rough correlation with reality is needed. In fact Hailey's portrayal of top-echelon business, his main concern in The Moneychangers, feels a little wrong throughout; the carpets are a little too thick, the talk a little too glib, the board members a little too nakedly opportunistic...
...Luis is in good shape. "I've been running, throwing every day," Tiant said in his thick Spanish accent. "My arm feels much better...
...almost believe we are ghosts...It's not only what we inherit from our parents that keeps on returning in us. It's all the old self-doubts, fears, hurts, prejudices. They aren't alive in us; but they hang on just the same...Ghosts everywhere--so many and thick, they're like grains of sand...