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...rookie spy, he left a briefcase stuffed with classified documents on a New York City subway train. He strewed clandestine communications gear around his office, unsecured. He couldn't account for Company money or for himself. His falling-down-drunk episodes were legion, including one at a CIA Christmas party when he had to be carted home. Even when sober, he had incompetence written all over him. A pre-employment psychological assessment found him lacking the people skills essential for spy work. Yet the CIA, desperate for warm bodies during the Vietnam War, hired him anyway. His first boss...
...Dukakis] really needs to work on clothes," Farnsworth said. "Corduroy pants and white L.A. Gear shoes just...
Which, as everyone on the team hopes will soon sink in, is a pretty good realization to come to right before the Ivy League schedule kicks into high gear...
...growing hordes of American troops who are slowly taking over Haiti are carrying thousands of pounds of weaponry, ammunition and supplies. They are also carrying something else. Each and every one of them carries a bright red bullseye on his back. And just as the assorted gear designed to protect them has been provided by their government, so has that mark, a mark which could cost them their lives...
Students caught without rainy-day defense gear, however, did not share Corsa's sentiments...