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...seems like a sensational deal. After a mere two or three years of work, retire on a pension that will finance decades of carefree living. Such a bargain is in fact available -- but only to chimpanzees. Some 80 chimps are involved in a research project in San Antonio in which they are injected with the AIDS virus; they develop some clinical symptoms but not the full disease and have every prospect of living out their normal life-span of 40 to 60 years. They are, however, useless for further research, and it seems imprudent to release the AIDS-infected primates...
Dale McKussic (Mel Gibson) is your basic existential hero of the California '80s: humanist hunk, thoughtful father, loyal friend, gentle lover and, oh, yes, a cocaine dealer. Now he wants to retire -- no pension, thank you, but no penance either. No police heat courtesy of an old-buddy cop (Kurt Russell). And no mortal wounds from rival coke kingpins or Mexican comandantes (Raul Julia). Just a cozy table for two with a hard-to-get restaurateur (Michelle Pfeiffer) who chirps skepticism like a tequila mockingbird...
Harvard contended that it did not have any control over the decision of KKR to take over RJR and claimed that it could not back out of the deal. The Commonwealth of Massachussetts pension fund, which had also originally committed funds to KKR's limited partnership, pulled out because it did not approve of the hostile takeover process or RJR's connections to South Africa. Harvard's administrators, however, saw nothing wrong with donating University resources to this scheme...
...public sentiment in favor of unions and exerts enormous community pressure upon the folks in the boardrooms. It involves the personal lobbying of political figures on behalf of unions; stresses an executive's personal accountability for his corporate decisions; and involves massive research on corporate relations--such as how pension funds are invested, or which members of the board may have a conflict of interest...
Instead of a pension, however, Samson now gets a whole new Deighton trilogy, beginning with Spy Hook. Line and Sinker are the titles of the projected other novels, suggesting an activity more passive and a lot murkier than tennis. In this new work, Deighton's temptingly baited plot lines run dark and deep. The first half offers more nibbles than bites as Samson discovers just how little his bosses want him to know about their intelligence operations...