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...greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters...
That knowledge could come in handy during the next year, as health care, funding for space research and other issues dear to Harvard come before Congress...
Instead Dunne chose to spiral around the Blue Tyler myth in great, windy loops of speculation, reminiscence, industry gossip and dear-reader throat clearing, delivered by a self-absorbed and only fitfully interesting narrator named Jack Broderick. He's a middle-aged screenwriter whose wife has just died, so he's at loose ends. There is almost no action or dialogue in present time. What the author offers is Broderick, onstage alone, scratching his head and relating what he has learned from a phone call or an old police report. Blue had a husband named Teddy who got stoned...
...Dear Mr. President: I am resigning today ... " With these by now familiar words another Whitewater casualty (and Clinton confidant) left the Administration. Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman's position had become politically untenable after Democrats as well as Republicans accused him of misleading Congress about his contacts with the White House over an investigation of the Arkansas savings and loan at the heart of the affair. A day after Altman walked the plank, he was followed by Jean Hanson, the chief Treasury lawyer, who had been criticized for failing to correct misstatements she knew Altman had made in congressional testimony...
Scott Professor of Law David R. Herwitz saidBreyer is a "dear friend, colleague and one of thefinest federal judges...