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...would not say.) The agency yanked him out to join the first U.S. team going into Afghanistan. That was typical for a CIA paramilitary officer, who at a moment's notice may be thrown into what John calls a pickup team. John's team included four CIA officers fluent in Farsi or Dari who for years had been sneaking into Afghanistan, recruiting spies for the agency. Their mission now was to hook up with those contacts, collect intelligence for the impending U.S. aerial attack and hunt for bin Laden. Along with the light arms, radios and rations they had packed...
...Unlike Min, I have shifted in my writing from Chinese to English for the sake of creativity. Although I've been publishing in Chinese since age 14 and am more fluent and comfortable in Chinese, English enables me to write without self-censorship and worries about cultural land mines...
...boot), his cosmopolitan origins and a lifetime of hobnobbing with the high and mighty have turned him into a consummate, and well-connected, pundit. His work as a U.N. goodwill ambassador - he's still going strong after 35 years on the job - keeps him in the international mix. Fluent in English, French and German, but not Russian - "I speak very bad Russian, but without an accent, and the Russians consider that a provocation" - he maintains a close relationship with the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. "He saw the collapse of East Germany as a tidal wave that could only...
...been with the Peace Corps for nine of the past 11 years. He served as a volunteer in a small Hungarian village shortly after graduating from St. Michael's College in Vermont with a degree in literature (yes, he read The Quiet American). While there he became fluent in Hungarian and met his wife, also a Corps volunteer, with whom he has a three-month-old daughter. He served as a desk officer in Washington and an administrative officer in Mongolia before arriving in Moscow last year. When his predecessor left Russia last June, Hay became acting country director. This...
...charge because of Daines’ connection to the renowned School of American Ballet in New York City. Daines, as well as three other members of the company she says is saturated with amazing talent and excellent training, attended the school and there became sufficiently “fluent in the Balanchine technique” to be able to perform his celebrated steps...