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In My Own Words:
"We don't know where we come from We don't know where we're going to And if all this should have a reason Then we would be the last to know So let's all hope there is a promised land And hang on till then as best as we can" John Kay "Steppenwolf" 1968 For anyone interested in… Read more"We don't know where we come from
We don't know where we're going to
And if all this should have a reason
Then we would be the last to know
So let's all hope there is a promised land
And hang on till then as best as we can"
John Kay
"Steppenwolf"
1968
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Over the last several years, former Secretary Of Commerce Pete Petersen has become something of a cottage industry in and of himself, writing several books, appearing as a pundit on talk shows, and acting as chairperson for both the Blackstone Group and the prestigious Council for Foreign Relations (CFR). Here he continues the caustic warnings he first articulated in "Gray Dawn", a polemic ranting against the potentially devastating consequences of the graying of the American population and the stress this demographic factor would have on growing federal deficits, the aging population itself, and on the national debt. He amplifies those warnings by making a rather alarming set of… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
For those of us who marveled at the manner in which the combined Allies created and conducted the trials of the German hierarchy at Nuremberg, successfully demonstrating to the world the fashion in which the British, French, American and Russian allies could cooperate and compromise sufficiently to prosecute some of the most murderous of the motley crew comprising the Nazi regime, the stunning failures of our similar attempts to settle the issues surrounding the disposition of the Japanese war criminals was a bitterly disappointing revelation. Indeed, by the time the collected Allies gathered to consider the fate of the Japanese offenders, the world had changed, and the welter of… Read more
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Like the other famous best-seller turned BBC series coming from the unchallenged master of the intelligent spy thriller John LeCarre, this original teleplay is an absorbing treatise on the hidden and conflicted corners of the human heart, the many ways in which our own natures feed into and extend the darker impulse of a society bent on pursuing the secrets and treachery that ever lurks for the unsuspecting victim. Here, in the finale of LeCarre's three best-selling novels tracing the pilgrim's progress of George Smiley, the intrepid and unlikely hero of the post-industrial Western world, Alec Guiness wonderfully reprises his role as George Smiley, concluding LeCarre's marvelously… Read more
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