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The NYT, Post (in their business sections), and WSJ report that Amazon.com Inc.'s fourth-quarter revenue, $650 million, failed to match analysts' "whisper number," which in some circles doubled earlier, published estimates of $500 million.
The White House has two social circles, two policy circles, two agendas.
In American foreign-policy circles, everyone is waiting for the next X. "X" was the byline on the famous 1947 essay in Foreign Affairs , actually written by George Kennan, that analyzed Soviet communism and laid out the post-World War II policy of "containment."
More important, all the different ways of using your intellect in different institutions, for different audiences, in different social circles, with differing degrees of self-consciousness, do not, it seems to me, produce the kind of person you can shoehorn into a single group.
A reverent profile of John le Carré defends him from the lowly designation of "spy novelist" and bemoans his under-recognition in literary circles.