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King repeatedly reveals his own life-long obsessions with fame and wealth, with Cadillacs, beautiful women, and horse races. "Miami was a personality town," he says in the very first paragraph of the book, "and I was a personality." Though King claims to be over his obsession, the reader wonders whether this book about his life with the stars is only another manifestation of his drive...
Keller is entirely aboveboard about her firm commitment to the Core experiment, her next paragraph numbers President Bok, Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, and Core task force chairman James Q. Wilson among those who criticized and reviewed the book in manuscript. For the reader truly skeptical of the Core's philosophy, her account is likely to be more historically than philosophically interesting, more rationale than investigative debate...
When it became apparent that the Jerusalem paragraph remained a potential obstacle to any agreement at all, the three negotiators decided to delete it. Instead, all three were to outline their
Begin came with Dayan and Barak, for which we were thankful. If anyone at Camp David had influence on Begin, it was these two men. Begin began talking about the blessed settlements, but I insisted that we go through both documents in an orderly fashion, paragraph by paragraph. I wanted the Israelis to realize how few differences remained. In an hour we were finished with the Sinai document, and it was obvious to me that Sadat would be willing to accept almost all the Israeli demands for change. The few others were not very important to Begin, and I felt...
...SEPTEMBER 17. I was eager to meet with Sadat, and he and I quickly went over the proposals for the final language. The few predictable changes that he advocated would, I was sure, be acceptable to the Israelis. The only serious problem was his desire to delete the entire paragraph on Jerusalem. I knew that the Israelis wanted the same thing, but I did not tell Sadat. I reserved this concession in case I needed bargaining points later...