re: "Leave the Non-Paper ... Take the Canoli"

TSB at The Skeptical Bureaucrat ("Giving my fellow Americans the view from my cubicle") explains "The Godfather Doctrine."

Money quote(s):

"(F)or lessons in wielding power, how could you go wrong with the greatest gangster film of all time? It's modern-day Machiavelli right down to the olive oil."

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"On 9/11, when my co-workers and I were watching the Twin Towers fall on a TV screen, and then looked out of our Arlington office to see a column of smoke rising from the direction of the Pentagon, one of us - a long-time veteran Regional Security Officer - said: "this is the business we've chosen." It didn't seem at all inappropriate, and it expressed what we were all thinking at that moment about how our professional lives would be changed by the day's events. "