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Historical Study A-42. Nation, State, and Empire in West Eurasian Space: Where Romanov Writ...
Jokes about the inefficiencies and convolutions of government bureaucracy are as American as, well, a crust-enclosed dessert filled with the fruit of deciduous Eurasian plants known as apple trees. The first two are gags that were probably old when Vice President Al Gore's father Albert Sr. was first elected to the Senate in 1952. Their antiquity indicates how deeply entrenched are the habits of bureaucratic bumbling, and the immense force of inertia that sustains them. The paperwork story was presented as fact by a Treasury Department worker sounding off at one of the "town-hall" meetings the Vice...
...report, sent to Aspin on June 22, was in response to a series of questions raised by the principal director of Russian, Eurasian and East European affairs at the Defense Department. The inspector general's report described a few instances in which both Allison and Blackwill seemed to either misinterpret regulations or refer to conversations that others did not remember...
...contract administrators apparently discussed the best way to obtain Blackwill's consultation. Reluctant to cite Allison's office as a sponsor because of his consultant status, the report said the two decided to instead cite the Russian, Eurasian and East European Affairs Office as the sponsor. When the assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for that department received a copy, he objected the use of his office's name. The report concluded with regard to Allison's influence on the hiring of Blackwill that "it appears...that his actions were directive rather than advisory in nature and, therefore, exceeded the limitations...
During the astonishing, bewildering years when the Russians were dismantling their steel-clad Eurasian empire, David Remnick was not content to be an eyewitness to history. He waded into it, hip deep, and interviewed hundreds of politicians, generals, intellectuals and workers. Remnick, then a Washington Post correspondent, now at the New Yorker, saw his job as going where the action was, talking with the key figures and checking out the details...