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...Those are barriers which somehow or another have to be dismantled. Those ( are our cold war manners. Of course, all intelligence services like to retain their mystique. The first thing the Americans do if they get a wonderful report from the Israelis is edit it, retitle it, put all sorts of stamps all over it and shove it upstairs. This is another reason, incidentally, why intelligence assessments are so frequently distorted: the same source can fund a whole lot of seemingly separate intelligence documents. Let's say, the Israelis prepare a document which they're prepared to give...
Avery Tolar (Gene Hackman), McDeere's mentor at the firm, is now a much more interesting character. A heavy-drinking womanizer who uses alcohol and sex to dull the pain of his wife's rejection while managing to retain a shred of human compassion at the end, his relationship with Abby is one of the strongest parts of the film. The contrast between the young, innocent wife and the older, jaded lawyer and her ultimate emergence as the stronger character is painful but dynamic to watch...
...needs to move beyond this divisiveness to solve perpetual conflicts in the city, so we can get about the business of solving real problems for real people--job and career opportunities for Cambridge residents, encouraging mixed income housing and home ownership opportunities for residents, improving the business climate to retain our much-coveted commercial tax base and thereby avoid the considerable shift in tax burden towards homeowners and tenants, improving our school's curriculum to equip our children for standardized test performances and the future, advancing a sound fiscal municipal plah that allows and encourages reasonable limited development and renewal...
...fundamentalism, in the name of the secular, liberal and humane strand in Arab culture whose voices are silenced by Middle Eastern regimes and ignored in America. "People try to characterize me as a spokesman for the Arab states," says Said, "but I'm not. I've always tried to retain my independence. I've always spoken out against the leaders...
...president has made efforts to retain experienced hands like McArthur and Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50, a consummate University insider who has worked in some capacity for every Harvard president since James Bryant Conant...