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There is no disputing that the allies' high-tech weapons chest is loaded with razzle-dazzle. But just what were those fancy guidance systems locking onto and those clever bombs blowing to smithereens? In some cases, it seems, nothing more than a cardboard shell gussied up to look like an Iraqi Scud launcher...
...legend of the Service," Smiley tells the expectant students, "Oh, I don't think I'm a legend at all. I think I'm just a rather fat old man wedged between the pudding and the port." Not true. Ned paraphrases the remarks of an extremely clever and thoughtful man: "He scoffed at the idea that spying was a dying profession now that the cold war had ended: with each new nation that came out of the ice, he said, with each new alignment, each rediscovery of old identities and passions, with each erosion of the old status...
Elsewhere Puzo is dead serious about the tendency of money and power to corrupt. The Fourth K of the title is President of the U.S. Francis Xavier Kennedy, a fictive cousin of John and Robert's. F.X.K. is a clever invention, but he also shares characteristics with The Godfather's Michael Corleone. Both are intelligent young men whose high ideals are tarnished by a brutal world. In fact, it is idealists who cause most of the trouble. When a group of Arab terrorists known as the One Hundred kill the Pope, hijack a jet carrying the U.S. President's daughter...
...reaction of some Harvard students to these posters, so clever in their appeal to principle, so vicious in their sous-texte, has been to violate the rules of free speech and thereby play into the hands of the real enemies of freedom...
...permission to post one's own clever or not-so-clever signs reminding people of Arab (and Palestinian) assaults on the United States or on Kuwait or on innocent travelers or on Jews peaceably worshipping in other lands? And invite further posters in return, perhaps of the more explicitly hateful kind seen on the West Bank, with English translation appended...