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...death; he bullies, wheedles, whines, pleads. Then along comes Aaron, who responds to the dead diarist--and in so doing becomes a flesh-and-blood character. Inman says at one point that "a diary expurgated and deleted is a eunuch of a diary." Aaron says at another, "Oh, for God's sake, Arthur, SHUT...
...implausibilities mount. Twain engages in time travel. When events do not turn out as he likes, he causes whole swatches of his life to reoccur. His daughter Susy, who died in 1896, appears at a press conference as a ghost in early 1986. A character purporting to be God shows up to explain that all of human existence has occurred merely so that he can win a bet about human survival against a deity in another solar system. The core of the book is perhaps the biggest effrontery of all: in his guise as the reincarnated Twain, Carkeet offers letters...
...though each leader had brought with him a wide array of senior advisers who had labored for months to lay the groundwork, the essential work would be done one to one, face to face. "All that machinery, all those cars and buildings and communications and people, and then, by God, two personalities just took charge," a top Administration official later mused. "Everything was different once those two leaders shook hands...
What happened in Geneva was participatory summitry. Reagan went about his business as he always does in that environment, firmly rooted in Thomas Jefferson's doctrine that freedom is a God-given right and James Madison's conviction that some participants will try to corrupt freedom, but more will try to protect...
...dispatched in a hurry, requiring large cash advances. If requisitions and paper procedures are elaborate, too many people could learn about a mission, compromising both its secrecy and speed. "That's the penalty you pay," said a retired Army general, "when you permit an organization to report only to God." Since the Army will not admit publicly that Delta Force even exists, proving that its members pocketed money that was also carefully concealed may not be easy...