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Gore and Bradley have got themselves into a shameless arms race, each one trying to outdo the other in flattering and cajoling minority voters.
It's very hard, in practice, to take money as a compensation consultant and then be openly critical of the outcome without either violating confidentiality or inviting the inference that your clients ignored your good advice--all of which underscores my original notion that if you want to be a corporate critic, you shouldn't get involved in corporate decisions, no matter how flattering the invitation.)
On a larger scale, the treatment of the mentally ill mirrors the humanity of a society; in many societies, the return image is not flattering.
The Post story refers to Clinton's appeals in these appearances for the expansion of individual liberties and his polite but unambiguous condemnation of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, but then says he's spent far more time flattering Chinese audiences than challenging them.
(In fact, beware of the flattering blurb by Lewis on Burn Rate 's dust jacket.)