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Nights in the Pink Motel.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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In this quirky, revealing memoir, Earle, a retired foreign-service officer and a fiction writer with a history of depression, is, with the approval of his wife but not of his psychiatrist, talked into going to Iraq by John Negroponte, the incoming U.S. Ambassador. Negroponte wants Earle to be his "thinker"--his actual title is senior adviser--but a lot of what he thinks about is why is he ...

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