Declan's book

[Jim Choate]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Tim May wrote:

> Colin Powell recently got paid $200,000 for a 30-minute off-the-cuff 
> speech on some "why foreigh policy matters" b.s. topic. Of course, it 
> was underwritten by a Lebanese "businessman" said in news reports to 
> have close ties to Syrian intelligence, so do the math. A legal way 
> to buy influence in our strange society. If Colin Powell can give N 
> of these b.s. speeches a year, my thoughts are surely worth $10K for 
> a day or two's worth of writing. Of course, this won't happen.

The market speaks, your time must not be worth the same as his after all.

That must be crushing.

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