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...reasons for bailing are pretty obvious. R-dubs spend most of time on the road alone, either collecting a massive amount of mundane, seemingly useless facts or writing in a hotel room for hours and hours, usually in longhand, compiling facts and cleverly worded accounts of their travels--all this for a net profit that usually comes out to about...
...source of the storm is Vasili Mitrokhin, 77, who in 1972 was the officer in charge of checking, sealing and moving to a new headquarters 300,000 files kept by the KGB's foreign intelligence service. Disillusioned by the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he set about copying in longhand the highly sensitive files in his care and stuffing his notes in metal cases beneath his dacha. By his retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence...
...says the real work used to occur after hefinished drafting the text in longhand...
...newlywed at the age of 71, some 44 years after his first marriage was annulled, an admirer of high tech who nonetheless drafts speeches in longhand, a Republican who gets along better with the Clinton Administration than he ever did with its G.O.P. predecessors, Alan Greenspan has long been a man of surprises. But none is more startling than his recent transformation in the public mind. Back in 1994, when he was engineering a series of interest-rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairman was regularly assailed as a zealot willing to strangle economic growth in pursuit of a chimerical goal...
...admit that Tomalin is somebody who converts centigrade temperature into Fahrenheit before she ventures out of the house and is widely suspected of having written her recently published biography of Jane Austen in longhand...