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...basis of how they look or act is suspect: "A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations...
...National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft was an unrelenting hawk during the Administration policy debates. "For Scowcroft," Woodward writes, "war was an instrument of foreign policy, pure and simple...
...voice coach, says he tries to prepare his students for what he calls "the ordeal of a career. You hope that after the young singer gets out into the world, he will encounter conductors who understand the voice. Some are ruthless -- to them the voice is just another percussion instrument...
Many talk about the army and the KGB as though they were monolithic. Actually, they are as divided as the rest of society. Because of those divisions, neither the military nor the KGB is a realistic instrument for a would-be dictator to suppress opposition throughout the country...
Born in 1940 in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, Majid began his career in the Baath Party's internal-security branch, whimsically called the Instrument of Yearning. Its reputation for rough torture made it the most feared organization in Iraq. Grateful for Majid's help in ridding him of Baathist rivals, Saddam made him Minister of Municipalities. But his real job was to be Saddam's No. 1 enforcer...