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Boswell reveres Johnson, and at the same time manipulates him continually.”
Having conditioned its audience to view IQ as all-important, The Bell Curve then manipulates statistics in a way that makes IQ look bigger, and everything else smaller, in determining Americans' life-chances.
He is correct to identify the glibness, guile, and style with which Reed manipulates mass audiences, but he doesn't point out that this masks a dark, self-serving ambition.
The autopilot is an electronic system that manipulates the three "control surfaces" that determine an airplane's course: the movable panels, called ailerons, on the back of each wing that allow the plane to bank right or left; the tail rudder, which turns the aircraft's nose; and the elevators, which point the plane up or down.
Speculation: 1) through the covert shipment of oil to Iran; 2) from the approximately $300-million worth of oil the United Nations lets him sell to Jordan each year; 3) by skimming funds from the sanctioned sale of $2 billion in oil that is supposed to buy food for his people; 4) from a secret Swiss bank account; 5) by playing the oil futures market, which he manipulates by creating the impression that the United Nations is about to lift the sanctions in reward for his changed conduct.