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...extent of Engelmayer's negotiating expertise, Cyrus Vance found in "Getting to YES" "simple but powerful ideas that have already made a contribution at the international level." Elliot Richardson '41, LL.B. '47 said it was "perhaps the most useful book you will ever read." John Gardner found it "a splendid contribution to our understanding of conflict resolution." And John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus, concluded. "This is by far the best thing I've ever read about negotiation. It is equally relevant for the individual who would like to keep his friends, property and income...
...statecraft, one gets the unmistakable image of a man who feels compelled to confront both the extremists in Reagan's house and the far right on Capitol Hill. At the heart of it all is a struggle for Ronald Reagan's mind. The President's splendid speech on arms reduction in Europe was a vital signal in that unfinished drama...
Raynard DeLeon's week began with splendid luck and cunning. He and five fellow inmates of the San Diego County jail squeezed through a ventilator shaft and out an unlocked door. But from there, DeLeon went one way, and his luck and cunning skittered off in another...
...Morgan discuss reincarnation in the Morgan Library. A few chapters later, Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Negro piano player who dares to chart his own destiny as the two plutocrats did theirs, has seized the Morgan Library to avenge an outrage inflicted on his prized Model T. It is a splendid tale with sweeping images and passions, needing no dialogue-just the occasional flash of a newspaper headline and the sound of a ragtime piano, working its funereal strut...
...placing our faith, we hope, as the sportsman always does, that the better team will win. And when all is said and done the better team probably will win, for failures and flukes are as much a measure of a team as splendid gains and wonderful charges. If a team fails in a crucial test, it is not the better team at that time, whatever it may have been before or may be after. But, to be frank, the philosophy of hoping that the better team will win is curiously involved with a good deal of believing that...