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Title: What every wonk should know
Review: In a locked cage in New York I saw a heap of Charlie Abrams' reports. Abrams was the UN's urban trouble-shooter. If there was an outcry about slums, squalor and squatting in Zamistan, or anywhere, Charlie was hired to write a report. He found that the problems were caused by corrupt officials. Those officials lived the good life in New York as UN delegates, who ordered the Secretary General to make sure Abrams' report was never read, especially by journalists. wonks or students. Charlie was a liberal academic who realized the world wanted reports about problems, not solutions. He had a large team, and he owned the urban trouble-shooting profession. World-wide. When California Goveror Pat Brown decided that housing problems in California needed looking-into he hired Chalie Abrams of New York - who else? Actually, the job was farmed out. Charlie blew off a little steam by writng a sort of textbook - which apparently was never reviewed.
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