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The auction firms also assiduously cultivate known collectors in the hope that, alive or dead, they will some day assign their possessions to the market: auction executives are among the world's most diligent readers of obituary pages. William Doyle, the ebullient Boston-Irish owner of a seven-year...
Powers seems to like Helms personally and while he rejected as anachronistic the CIA mentality--"Helms belongs to the past"--he does not beg the question. Quite correctly, Powers tries to avoid a prosecutorial approach. To assess the CIA's performance in it first 30 years, one needs not a...
WHEN THE PAPER CHASE hit the big screen, many a preprofessional conscience flinched. Perhaps some even paused a moment in their diligent march through college to law school--if it's really that bad, is it worth the pain? Several years later, juridical ambition springs anew, however, and John Jay...
Within the treaty binders was a complex series of agreements and understandings, so delicately balanced that they seemed to be an instant challenge to even the muted optimism on the North Lawn. Yet there was a framework to guide diligent men toward a genuine comprehensive peace. The treaty calls for...
In theory, it is not a great leap from the North American chili-tortilla parlor to the true provincial cuisine of Mexico. In fact, it would take years for the most diligent gringo to understand or annotate this peasant-rooted cuisine of peppers and cornmeal, arroz, barbacoa and relleno. Diana...