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...communists care about is slurping down black caviar and Napoleon brandy," said a slightly inebriated listener. "That goes for Ryzhkov -- and Bakatin...
...analysts, insisting that reports be made less cautiously academic and more relevant to policymakers, addressing their concerns bluntly, concisely and accurately. He demanded each analyst's "best estimate" on difficult questions, and tracked such judgments on scorecards that influenced promotions. Some analysts considered Gates a little Napoleon. But Congressman Dave McCurdy, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says he witnessed a "remarkable" improvement in the quality of CIA reports prepared under Gates...
That tolerance, though, dwindled, thanks in large part to the spread of Christianity in the West. The notion grew that there were admirable lives (hagiographies) to be emulated and horrible examples to avoid. The old curiosity remained, to be sure; how else to explain the legends about Napoleon's sexual capacities and the insatiability of Catherine the Great? But the theological abyss between the saved and the damned strained the pursuit of objective truth. In the 18th century, Dr. Samuel Johnson, a devout Christian and a leading biographer of his age, complained, "There are many who think...
...always cede the upper hand. Tennis players like Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe have an advantage that puts a deadly spin on the ball, and southpaws from Ty Cobb to Sandy Koufax have always been prized in baseball. And how about history's Left-Handed Hall of Fame? Lefty Napoleon! Lefty Picasso! Also such a contemporary personage as that stunning example of dyslexia in motion, Gerald Ford...
There is nothing new in the phenomenon of a single audacious individual grabbing humanity by the throat. But Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan and Napoleon all started near the center of the world they set out to conquer. Not too long ago, Saddam would have been a peripheral nuisance -- a pirate or a warlord meriting the dispatch of an expeditionary force from some imperial metropole...