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For God's sake, the Prime Minister himself would be there!

The Master Spinner of all.

***

Well, it had gone better than he had expected. No horror,
no ridicule, no crowds laughing out loud and hooting him off the
stage as his nightmares had proclaimed -- just polite attention,
the classic way of his people.

He lay in bed, the earliness of the next morning leaking in
the window, wondering where he'd go from here. He stroked Suzie's
head as she lay sleeping on his chest. She had soft golden hair,
as if woven from the Japanese sun at daybreak. But she was as
American as they came. Blond was still the ideal of American
culture, for that matter of many Japanese men as well, including
Harry. He'd been attracted to her the moment she'd joined his
research team in Tokyo three years ago. But he'd kept his
distance. Don't mix work with pleasure, mud with rainbows.
Builds you nothing but frustration. Who'd have predicted that
they'd be in his bed together here in New York City, further
away in some ways from her home in Montana than Harry's in
Japan. But this was no ordinary work. And the pressure it
engendered, well, it brought people together.

"Still mulling over the report?" Her eyelids fluttered
open against his neck.
 "Yeah," Harry said.

"It's not your responsibility," Suzie sighed, coming more
fully awake and confronting what had been their topic of
conversation for weeks on end now.

"You're wrong. Of course it is."

She put her lips near his chest, the palm of her hand on
his stomach. "You -- we -- collect the data. Make the
connections. We can't be responsible for what those in power do
with them."

He kissed her head. "That's what scientists have been
saying for centuries. Make the connections. Make the theories.
Make the weapons. Then log off the project and let the
politicians decide what to do with them. But if the politicians
use what we give them to hurt people, then it's our
responsibility, isn't it?"

"No," Suzie said, "it isn't. Politicians will hurt people,
take advantage of people, manipulate them, regardless of what