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Getting It Done

Derek Burney revels in 40 years of diplomacy

By Peter Schneider

Published April 27, 2005

Getting It Done: A Memoir

By Derek Burney

McGill-Queen's University Press

208 pp., $39.95

"Why did I join the foreign service? I didn't know anything about diplomacy. I joined because some guy came to the university campus to give a talk, and I wrote the exam. In my time, you could have done a hundred different things. I joined because I wanted variety. The hang-up I had...

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