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If the pols overrule and the mission succeeds, the generals still harvest the credit.
Becker succeeds in establishing the famine "as one of the worst atrocities of all time" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). He does this despite the Chinese government's continued effort to cover up the incident, and by way of "interviews with survivors [that] provide us with a chilling view of the famine as it was experienced by ordinary villagers" (Paul Pickowicz, the Wall Street Journal ).
If British telecom giant Vodafone succeeds in its attempted hostile takeover of German telecom giant Mannesmann, the deal will be, by some measures, the biggest deal in history (non-inflation, non-bull-market-adjusted, that is).
The U.N. secretary-general, says the article, is a career bureaucrat who "succeeds at little things and fails at big things."
Nothing succeeds like excess.