November 2009
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
8h 17m
English
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CHAPTER 3
The Stargate Trap
The Space Between Possibility and Reality
Idea → Design → Stargate → Implementation → Results
(←—————Reevaluation—————→)
CHAPTER GUIDE
- The Stargate Trap
- Boston’s Busing Nightmare: Seventy-seven Days to Disaster
- The Secret Recipe for Change
- Reducing Acid Rain: Breaking the Impasse
- Japan’s Number One Elvis Fan Goes Postal
- The Distortion Effects of the Stargate Trap
- Tom Davis and the Culture of the Beltway
- Lessons from the Gulf of Tonkin
- The Marshall Plan: A Better Way
Politics is the art of the possible.
—ATTRIBUTED TO OTTO VON BISMARCK
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