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...Faculty McGeorge Bundy lectured about the importance of U.S. involvement in Indochina and the relevance of the domino theory. In Government 180, "Principles of International Politics," then-associate professor Henry A. Kissinger '50 told an overflow crowd of 350 that "students sitting at my feet flatter my ego...
Appalled at the cost of maintaining such increasingly extravagant monuments to Executive Branch ego (currently running at $14.6 million annually), Congress a fortnight ago passed a bill limiting the size of future presidential libraries. Ronald Reagan promised to sign the measure into law --but only after pressuring the bill's authors to exempt the presidential library he plans to build at Stanford University...
...meeting, in his office, Cuomo will punch out telephone calls himself. He rings the mayor of Niagara Falls. He is out. He calls his son Andrew, a shrewd 28-year-old lawyer who ran Cuomo's campaign for Governor and is in many ways his father's alter ego. The Governor mentions the name of a potential political appointee. Andrew likes the candidate and the idea. Good. It is settled...
Hence 69 pages worth of "Major H Winners" at the back of Crimson in Triumph, 69 pages worth of subliminal, ego-buttering, hard sell...
...Pryor wants to play the victim of circumstances and earn more than a modicum of our sympathy without going all the way with it. He uses the movie to avenge all the people that did him wrong along life's proverbial dusty road, but he hides behind the alter-ego of Jo Jo Dancer...