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...gathering. They propose that covert actions, now in the hands of the CIA's deputy director of operations, should be assigned either to the Pentagon or to a new agency. This is not a good idea. First, intelligence gathering, especially by covert means, and clandestine foreign operations inevitably overlap and often involve the same agents. To divide them artificially would risk duplication, inefficiency and-more serious-the possibility of intelligence gatherers and clandestine operators bumping into each other and being discovered. For the Pentagon to oversee covert actions, as Harris suggests, would give the military a license to initiate...
Hall feels closest to Champion, partly because their jobs overlap in many areas, but also because Hall has enormous respect for Champion. Still, possibly because he is closest to Hall, Champion has been the one to take the initiative in quieting Hall's overzealous experiments, as he did in the case of the palm print machine...
These individuals overlap so that the structure of the novel, too, is ever-shifting, molecular, always replacing itself like plants growing and dying a billion times a second in a rich, dank forest--you can hear the process. There's something in the language that achieves this: short sentences appearing and vanishing like postcards and daguerrotypes. Doctorow doesn't invest his people with modern concerns like Gore Vidal does, in his historical fiction, adding sex and neurosis and perversity of motive. The grainy literariness of the ragtime people is inviolable--ladies constantly fleeing to the garden, derbies dotting riverside parks...
This week, however, John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the College, gave the council a memorandum that showed under the proposed guidelines there were no less than 13 different ways to graduate; that some of the ways could overlap; and that a cum laude in general studies could conceivably be more desirable than a departmental...
Racked from within by deep-seated political and religious tensions and troubled from without by neighbors whose feuds overlap borders, Lebanon is something akin to a high-wire act in a hurricane. Last week without warning, it slipped. The result was a bloodbath...