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...straight up brown-noser: he agrees with everything the TF says. He's the person you didn't like in high school, but worse, because he's gotten into Harvard and thinks he's the man. All these people want...
...trouble. The folks who run around toppling governments don't like him because he's a desk-occupying bureaucrat. The analysts don't like him because he's a hard-ass to work for. And we shouldn't like him because he's a certified brown-noser who has gotten to the top by modifying intelligence to please his superiors or, if we give him the benefit of the heavy doubt, looking the other way while the Iran-Contra operation was going...
...highest court in the nation. He only wrote one major opinion in his single year on a court. Before that, his controversial four-year tenure as chair of the EEOC was marked by lax investigation of discrimination complaints which led even conservative commentators to call him an inveterate brown-noser (Ronald Reagan took immense pleasure in seeing the EEOC flounder...
...social-climber Richard Rich (Robert de Neufville) has an altogether different approach to politics. Rich is not ashamed to beg for a post, and he serves as a direct contrast to More, who is living the epitome of the moral life. De Neufville plays the part of the brown-noser so naturally, in fact, that one shudders to think how he would act in section...
Yard: le, Parker, Ohler; lt, Noser, Sweeney; lg, Hickox, Sockel; c, Richardson; rg, Knight, Church; rt, Hoefing-hoff; re, Silver, Anderson; backs, O'Keefe, Zimmerman, Lindblatt, Manning, Milford, Evans...
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