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...paragon of this camp is Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security policy. He has had more impact on the substance of U.S. policy in INF and START than any other official in the U.S. Government, an achievement that is all the more remarkable since he holds a third-echelon job. Part of his success is that he is as personally charming, intellectually brilliant, bureaucratically masterful and politically well connected as he is ideologically unyielding. He was for years Senator Henry Jackson's top assistant and the leading congressional staffer in the campaign against SALT. He maintains...
...million program, the bureaucratic and overhead expenses can become staggering in themselves. Harvard's solution to these logistical problems has been to draw potential donors into the administrative processes as much as possible. Like so much of the University's administration, the Harvard Campaign is a paragon of successful decentralization. And at each stage of the process, the alumni with the largest giving potential--the top 1 percent who would donate 75 of the funds--have been involved intimately...
...sense of priorities, none would admit that he does not aspire to all five goals. Thus the student who has mastered the riches of Western civilization has probably also learned to think for himself and to see the moral purposes of life. And surely such a paragon can find a good job even in the recession...
Kahn seems determined to reduce Whitney to such a paragon of materialistic virtue. Kahn turns the two "watershed moments" in Jack's life into cocktail party epics. At Groton, the reverend Endicott Peabody delivered a sermon on "the egg who just got by." During World War II, the Nazis took him prisoner. "For once in his life, he had found himself in a situations where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic...
...showed sizable declines in industrial production and consumer spending, a September rate of housing starts that was the third lowest on record, a .6% third-quarter drop in total national output of goods and services and even an unexpectedly large $468 million third-quarter loss reported by that onetime paragon of profit, General Motors...