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...Spit in face of Americans...
...more serious side. Cross's picture of graduate student and junior faculty life is more devastating than any number of reports by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Terrorized by the tenured elite, condescended to by the students and spit out by the University when their time is up, these cogs in the big Harvard machine lead a pretty grim existence. One of them says...
...They have staying power. They can wait. They just grind you down, chew you up, and when the time comes they spit...
...captives recalled that one of them had given a clergyman a written message complaining about mistreatment, but the clergyman turned the note over to the Iranian guards, who then treated the Americans even more severely. Sergeant Lopez told a member of his family: "If you see that Reverend Rupiper, spit in his face for me." Lopez was referring to Darrell Ru-piper, a Roman Catholic priest in Omaha, Neb., who acknowledged that he had indeed been handed a note during the visit but said that it was taken from him by an Iranian guard before he had a chance...
...needs a boost in morale. In an agency of special sensitivity, Turner treated CIA officials much like swabbies on a deck detail. He eliminated 820 posts in the Directorate of Operations, dismissing veteran officers with curt notes. CIA subordinates reacted by circulating Gilbert and Sullivan parodies of their spit-and-polish director...