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...turning inward and saying, "I need a mid- course correction here," you get more of the same. They don't say, "If $200,000 didn't make me happy, why should $300,000?" It's bad logic. It's what I call well-intentioned self-destruction. Why not switch to more control of the organization, shaping lives in a positive way? Or switch to more free time? Instead, the secret account in the Bahamas becomes the challenge...
...which police may check the backgrounds of prospective handgun purchasers. They argued that the ban on domestic semiautomatics and the restriction of magazines containing more than seven rounds was a logical next step that could prevent haunted individuals from committing mass murders. During the House debate, one legislator did switch his vote: Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat and gun-control opponent whose district includes Killeen, site of last week's killings. "Suddenly, the old arguments ring hollow -- 'Guns don't kill people, people do' . . . This is one step, one reasonable, commonsense effort to put in regulations in the real world...
...that nonstick substance could be wearing thin. "Jimmy Robinson has been asleep at the switch," alleges an executive of a rival credit-card firm. "He's not what you call a hands-on manager. He spends too much time out having fun schmoozing with clients at golf dates." Robinson angrily denies such charges, arguing that outsiders have no idea of his schedule or how he spends his day. "Let them use an 80-hour week as a denominator," Robinson says. He knows it will take that much time, well spent, to retrieve the cachet that American Express has left home...
Beyond that, the Soviets are even more eager than the Democratic Party to switch massive resources from the defense establishment to the civilian economy. Deputy Defense Minister Pavel Grachev told a parliamentary committee last week that the armed forces might be cut almost in half, to 2 million to 2.5 million people, by 1994. His boss, Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, later said firm plans call for mustering out only 700,000 of the present roughly 4 million. But he added that "further cuts are not excluded depending on the military- political situation in the world" -- presumably meaning, in part, what...
Another quirky maneuver is the author's tendency to switch between first and third person. Ostensibly he seeks to portray Frank's distance from his numerous problems. Kaplan also varies the tense from past to present. Mostly, this makes the book less readable, truncating any natural flow. Occasionally in all these switch-eroos the author gets lost. For example, in the midst of a third-person narrative, he writes, "It does seem almost toasty. The fire is crackling brightly..." Who finds the fire toasty? Frank? His wife, Jena? Although Kaplan might know, the reader certainly does...