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摘要

WITH its "in" crowd,its "out" crowd and its jostling groups in between,Washington,as the late Meg Greenfield once said,is just like school.And the National Security Council,the White House office that co-ordinates foreign policy,is about as "in" as it gets.David Rothkopf,foreign-policy commentator and former Clinton administration official,falls somewhere in the middle,which may be one reason why he so wanted to peer into the inner circle.His book,while not as juicy as its title suggests,is,however,a sprawling attempt at making sense of one of Washington's most amorphous institutions.