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...Casey fight the CIA's secret wars and the even more vicious inside-the-Beltway wars. He must have driven the special prosecutor crazy during Iran-contra, sticking to the truth but giving up nothing that could sink the Reagan Administration. When Gates finally left government, he wrote a bland, ruffle-no-feathers memoir. He never talked out of school about the Bushes. He never took on the CIA in public or offended the rank and file. Gates is a company man, a loyal civil servant, a realist. Reducing him to a Bush family retainer misses his real character...
Conflicted is a tough attitude to convey, and it deserves partial credit for the book’s success. A book like this could have veered too far in the direction of condemnation and alienated hoi polloi, or fallen into bland history, which would have killed it before it hit the shelves. As it is, Savan sheepishly employs the same language that she lovingly derides, and one gets the sense that she was blushing as she wrote certain passages...
...bill making martial law easier to impose, cynical listeners may get a chuckle out of Greenwood’s “the flag still stands for freedom, and they can’t take that away.” Luckily for rock fans, this song is as bland and forgettable as “Sam’s Town...
More importantly, the evaluations should ask for more extensive qualitative comments from students. The CUE Guide only publishes tabulations of numerical scores and of brief qualitative descriptions, which tends to flatten any interesting remarks into bland platitudes about a professor being “excellent” or “knowledgeable.” Publishing students’ thoughtful remarks online, as a list below the existing evaluation, would afford students a much better understanding of a course...
...That's what happened to the previous bland blandishment of "Merry Christmas." It was no more a declaration of religious belief than saying, "God bless you," when you heard a sneeze. (Remind me: is that still allowed?) Yet in the nagging belief that an invocation of the holiday might upset some people, usually referred to as "our Jewish friends," the phrase morphed into "Happy holiday" or "Happy holidays" - those days presumably being Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's Day. Problem solved, with no offense...