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No matter how carefully Starr's sympathizers explained the distinction between the two cases--and even the superior gravity of the criminal case over the civil case--journalists fell back on the Clintonite spin that, as Tom Brokaw put it, Starr's probe "grew out of the Paula Jones case" and had therefore lost its viability.
Because espionage is such a small part of the business of intelligence--as compared with the purely intellectual work of analysis--none of the above would matter very much if the CIA could still attract the smartest graduates from the best universities.
Even in 1968, though, I had long realized—without thinking the matter through so thoroughly as I did for the paper—that academic study is not serious in the same sense that farming, mining, weaving, and child-rearing are.
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No matter the particular outcome, the NYT sees the dealing as indicative of the telecommunications industry's trend towards increasing consolidation, noting that a combined GTE-MCI would be the first company since the breakup of AT&T to have a large presence in both local and long-distance markets.