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...autumn of 2000, Hanssen needed more than luck. The back room was still digging, since none of the previous arrests explained all the blown operations of the '80s and '90s. Not too long after "B" resumed contact with the Russians, the analysts concluded that the failures were caused by leaks from FBI files. They were sure the FBI harbored another mole...
...decade, and if the American experience of fighting a prolonged battle against drugs is any example, the war may never be totally won. More likely, these countries and societies will have to write off vast swaths of their populations as drug casualties, like the American victims of the '80s crack epidemic...
...university stopped monitoring high school education and started accepting fewer students. Over the years, applications soared, and a series of increasingly bitter fights began over who would get the increasingly precious slots, especially at the university's flagship schools, Berkeley and UCLA. During the late '80s and early '90s, Berkeley admitted half of its freshman class purely by a numerical formula in which SAT scores were the most important element. Because of the substantial gap among the races on the SAT, the schools could maintain a substantial minority presence only by explicitly setting test scores aside - which...
...what was a wonderful year? I'm not sure. Was it one from the '90s? From the Reagan '80s, maybe - the Gipper twinkling amid bunting and fireworks? Surely you are not going to speak up for something from the lame '70s? It is possible. Mary Tyler Moore was adorable...
...universe that every era has its cute British rock band and its brooding British rock band. The early '60s had the cuddly Beatles and the roguish Rolling Stones; the '70s and '80s had the romantic Police and the revolutionary Clash; the '90s had jocular Oasis and snide Blur. Since Radiohead, the band infamously given to brooding, has emerged as the most prominent British rock export of the early '00s, the rise of a cute alternative has seemed almost inevitable...