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...turned to professional advantage. For an undisclosed period of time from the late 1940s into the 1960s, he worked for Her Majesty's Secret Service, though he is quick to downplay his exploits. "I was never James Bond or anything like it," he insists. "I sat behind a desk...
...busy enough man as it is, which he happily underscores by handing me a copy of a Crain's New York Business article listing the Trump Organization as by far the largest privately held company in the metro area. He keeps a stack of the articles on his desk as you might a dish of mints. Long before Paris Hilton was a gleam in an infrared camera's eye, Trump lived by the dictum that you can never be too rich or too exposed to the media. And, he says, he was attracted by the "educational" aspects of The Apprentice...
Especially in the past four semesters, Doyle said he received complaints from students who had waited in line for up to an hour to reach the coursepack distribution desk, only to find that their book of choice had recently run out of stock...
...such alarming news hardly made a splash in the United States. Sure, The New York Times ran its requisite coverage from the foreign desk and an editorial from out of nowhere praising the slow but steady progress of Russian democracy, but the talking heads simply brushed it aside, and the story became little more than a small blurb on Headline News. Instead of hearing about tainted elections, we heard about the Paris Hilton video. And while both are important in their own way, I’m pretty sure most of us would agree that Putin is a little...
...J.F.K. and joyfully told the world of his loving larceny. He held that picture to his heart the rest of his life. Once in Nixon's White House I listened to Moynihan expound on Schumpeterian economics while the snout of an opened champagne bottle peeked out of a desk drawer. "Pat's great," Nixon once told me, "as long as you get to him before noon." For my dime, he was great after noon or any other time, following the Churchillian example of being able for a few crucial years to get more out of alcohol than...