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...black network was the bank's deepest secret, but rumors of its activities filtered through the bank's managerial level with chilling effectiveness. Senior bankers voice fears that they will be financially ruined or physically maimed -- even killed -- if they are found talking about B.C.C.I.'s activities. High-level bank officers know what happened to a Karachi-based protocol officer whom the black network suspected of unreliability last year. "They found he had been trying to liquidate his assets and quietly sell his house," says Mustafa. "So, first they killed his brother, and then they sent brigands to rape...
Still, publishers keep spending. The book industry increasingly bears more resemblance to Hollywood's high-rolling studios than to the decorous literary < houses of yore. Most large publishers are now part of corporate conglomerates, which are looking for blockbuster subjects to attract new audiences. "What you've got," says a high-level publisher, "is a lot of corporate executives who don't know publishing saying, 'Aha! There's a huge market out there that has never been tapped. Let's go after it.' " In a controversial article in the New Republic, writer Jacob Weisberg attacked this frenzied pursuit of blockbusters...
Most of the time, Washington overestimates China's importance. Even though the "China card" is no longer needed to help the West balance the Soviet Union, Bush credits Beijing with major international influence. In the months after the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, he twice sent high-level delegations to stroke the Chinese...
This was the year of the secretive search. There were secretive searches for president and dean of FAS, of course. And the cult of secrecy even trickled down to the lowest of the high-level appointments: house masters...
...addition to getting acquainted with Harvard, Rudenstine has been working hard to fill a number of soon-to-be-vacated, high-level University posts...