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With her advanced degree, law-enforcement experience and highly rated "persuasive skills," Diane finished near the top of her CIA training class. Posted to a Soviet-bloc country, she was so good at evading surveillance that headquarters gave her the sensitive job of meeting moles. She once hiked for miles across frozen fields to collect documents from a frightened communist official. "You look into the eyes of a man on a cold, snowy night, and you realize this guy has risked his life to come and give you this information," she says. The man's face had flooded with relief...
...surrendering the Golan, where Syrian gunners used to attack northern Israeli settlements before Israel captured it in the 1967 Mideast war. "It's clear thatin these meetingshe has already given up the Golan Heights, without which there can be no security," said Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the opposition Likud bloc...
...believe Russia and the U.S. are united in their effort to make Europe a truly unified, peaceful and democratic community of peoples. We disagree about the ways of achieving this aim. I proceed from the fact that the end of the age of bloc confrontation has made redundant the old logic of a military-political rivalry, where opposing nations did their best to fill a geopolitical "vacuum" and divided whole continents into zones of influence. This is particularly true of Europe. We do not think the real problems of European security can be resolved by expanding nato to the East...
...such a political hullabaloo that it is difficult to sort things out. As a result, sometimes those who are not the right people get into the State Duma. Therefore, we decided to cut off both the left and the right wings of the extremist movement and create two centrist blocs, because as you understand, one centrist bloc would be too big. This would be a model of the bipartisan system you have had for the past 200 years, resulting in a civilized state based on civilized principles. It will be a powerful force that will stop any petty politicians from...
...G.O.P. welfare bill would convert the federal program that feeds needy women, infants and children into a bloc grant and give individual states the right to decide the program's nutritional guidelines. That means current restrictions on the sugar content in cereal, which allow the purchase of dowdy old Cheerios but not the more sugary Raisin Bran, would become a thing of the past. As a result, says Joseph Stewart, a senior vice president of Raisin Bran's maker, Kellogg, "Raisin Bran could no longer be denied the opportunity to participate in this program...