Word: superiors
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DIED. James Walsh, 90, Roman Catholic bishop and former superior-general of the Maryknoll Fathers who, as a missionary, was imprisoned in China from 1958 to 1970 on charges of spying for the Vatican and the U.S.; in Ossining...
...eyes of the public, from any role in the seamy side of politics (an absolution Caro proved was underserved). But if there is a lesson to Moses' life--and to the ruin he brought upon a city--it is this: The rule of flawed but accountable politicians may be superior to the hegemony of independent and uncontrollable experts...
Habib's combination of patience, discretion, endurance and shrewd calculation flowered in 1968, when he was appointed No. 3 man at the frustrating Paris peace talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam, where Harriman was chief negotiator. Cyrus Vance, Habib's immediate superior and later Secretary of State, recalls Habib's meticulous allnight preparations of U.S. positions. The observant diplomat once advised his American colleagues to look under the bargaining table while dealing with the impassive North Vietnamese, since "you can tell when they're unsure of themselves by the way they cross and uncross...
Chief Justice Walter McLaughlin retired in 1977 to join his sons' Boston law firm. After ten years on the Massachusetts Superior Court, he was asked what he found most striking about returning to private practice. "The fees," he snapped. "They are outrageous. With the cost of litigation these days, I think clients would often be better off if they just met in the halls and threw dice. Certainly it would be cheaper...
...with the era of the machine gun, of the celebrity poisonings, of the union-busting towns in the West that were run for and by thugs. Lead ruled in such towns, and in the cities too, and brought all the social amenities usually associated with superior firepower. There was Pretty Boy Floyd and Al Capone. There was Bonnie and Clyde and J. Edgar Hoover. America was well on its way to becoming the single most violent nation on the face of the earth, and yet mystery writers were still trapped in a Gothic sinkhole...