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London Match brings Samson, the weather-beaten fieldman, back from Mexico City and Berlin to fester among intelligence bureaucrats in England. Stinnes must be debriefed if he is not a plant and foiled if he is. Samson, under suspicion because of Fiona's bad behavior, gets the assignment. He is impeded not so much by Stinnes and his ex-wife, though she is threatening to grab their children, as by his superiors. These careerists are, variously, twits, fops, climbers and pooh-bahs whose entire interest is in position, perks and, after they have dithered and muddled for a sufficient number...
...Bomb should allow all students to discover themselves through the beautiful art of nude modeling. I wasn’t given that chance, and this grievance shall fester...
What happens to a joke deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it fester in your mouth, reminding you that the gift of a great comedic mind comes with a curse: your friends, your family, and most people in the world will never be able to make you laugh? If you’re one of the funniest men alive, does it frustrate you when you shoot off a quip to the grocery-store checkout lady, and it goes over her head...
...almost always a step forward. The problems faced by a new democratic leadership—like secessionist regions in Georgia or control of Kirkuk in Iraq—will have to be faced eventually. Autocratic rule did not solve these problems, and continued repression will only make them fester. Even if a corrupt and autocratic ruler is replaced by another corrupt insider, as may happen in Kyrgyzstan, the successor will certainly find his behavior constrained by the example of what happened to his predecessor...
...immediate cause of the disastrous shortage—reportedly the safety failures at an English plant of the Chiron Corporation—are just a symptom of a larger problem that has been allowed to fester for years. Over the last decade, the number of suppliers of the flu vaccine in the U.S. has dwindled to two. Yet outrageous as this dangerous trend is, long term preventative solutions should not be the present focus; there is no use crying over spoiled milk, or, more appropriately, spoiled vaccine...