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...believe that "rank opportunism" is why Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates are where they are--in the top tier of intellegensia, black or white...
...light of this statistic, perhaps we should condone taking advantage of opportunity instead of condemning it as "rank opportunism". To make progress in this country where a third of the black male population between the ages of 20 and 29 are or have been involved with the criminal justice system, opportunism might be an unfair word for legitimate struggle...
...control the entire $28 billion annual intelligence budget, most of which heretofore was under the control of the Department of Defense. It didn't take a master spy to find out the winner in this game: John Deutch, only the second director of Central Intelligence to hold Cabinet rank, and clearly becoming the most powerful spymaster Washington has ever seen...
...spymaster since Allen Dulles ran the CIA for Dwight Eisenhower (Dulles' brother John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State). Deutch is also well on his way to becoming even more powerful than Ronald Reagan's notoriously influential spy chief, Bill Casey, who was the first director to hold Cabinet rank. When Deutch appeared reluctant to quit as Deputy Defense Secretary for the CIA job, Clinton dialed up the pressure by again upgrading it to a Cabinet post. Unlike Casey, Deutch ostensibly refrains from advocating policy with the President, only offering information. "Well, John, I know that you can't have...
...Will she turn out to be, like Danielle Steele and Judith Krantz, just one more queen of the steamy, scented stuff that the publishing industry calls "commercial"? It's possible. But so far McMillan has not written formula glop. And most of the time her chapters, though they can rank nearly as high as Steele's and Krantz's in breathy descriptions of dressing, undressing and furniture, have a brassy realism that saves them from the trash bin. And even though peace has broken out in the author's life, with the usual corrosive effects on a satirical viewpoint...