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...fact that Ray is actually a secret agent. That's right: Ray works for the CIA gathering information about local political operatives, in particular a brilliant, charismatic local doctor. (Poor, hot and ravaged by aids, Rush's Botswana practically vibrates with political instability.) This isn't just a whim on the author's part: Mortals comes with the whole special-ops toy chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves - a portrait of a marriage...
...this year, his coterie of staffers struggling to keep up. More aides sweated away in the bowels of Mass. Hall, churning out briefing books by the ream. And these handlers and spokespeople lit up the University’s switchboards, following up on their boss’s latest whim...
...whim, Ferrell signed up for classes in acting and stand-up comedy from the Groundlings, a renowned Los Angeles improv troupe...
...indulged every intellectual whim and didn’t specialize much,” he says. “I was always doing well in school because I was doing what I wanted. And that persisted through Harvard...
Consolini first went to Belize on a whim, after a business conference in New Orleans about 20 years ago. He says it seemed like a good idea, instead of returning straight to New York, to keep travelling south. The foreign-language-phobic Consolini chose Belize because he learned that the national language is English...