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...While the $130 million illegal-wildlife market pales in comparison with the billions Americans spend on drugs, undercover wildlife cops find themselves in equally exotic situations. Undercover stings have infiltrated a smuggling ring that exported falcons to Saudi royalty; a backwoods guide service that killed black bears for their gall bladders, which were then exported to Japan as aphrodisiacs; and a renegade group of Native Americans who illegally trafficked in eagle feathers. This winter's major bust, called "the Texas Waterfowl Operation," & climaxed a three-year investigation that exposed rampant disregard for laws governing the hunting of ducks and geese...
...first sign of revolt, interestingly, came from the outside directors who had come to dinner at the Waverly Hotel. Appalled by the gall shown by Johnson, whom one director called a "raider from the inside," a committee of five directors three weeks ago opened the bidding to all comers. First to accept the invitation were the most aggressive LBO artists of all, the Wall Street firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Headed by Henry Kravis, 44, and George Roberts, 45, KKR pioneered the leveraged buyout in the 1970s and nurtured it into one of the best-paying financial arrangements...
Masson harks back to this accusation fairly often in Against Therapy, but Freud is not specifically his target this time. Instead, the author is gunning for everyone who has ever had the gall to offer any sort of psychological treatment or aid to another person. His subtitle accurately indicates just how hyperventilating his argument is going to be: "Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing." Readers looking for nuance or subtlety should probably go elsewhere. But Masson raises some intriguing points, even if he insists on doing so at the top of his voice. Psychotherapy...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangles in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...Brokaw was so uncharacteristically solemn that he sometimes covered his mouth as if determined not to grin back at Gorbachev's smiles. Brokaw's behavior was remarkably self-effacing, and for the occasion quite appropriate. It was a welcome relief from those television news performers who through hyperconfidence or gall treat everyone they face as their intellectual equals (or perhaps inferiors). After all, a meeting between a television journalist and the Soviet dictator is not a battle of the giants...