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...Embassy in Moscow has lifted its Cold War ban on romance between foreign service employees and Russians. The news was delivered in a memo to embassy employees officially blessing "intimate or romantic relationships" with Russians -- so long as the Americans kiss-and-tell. Under the directive, employees must march into the embassy security office and 'fess up when a relationship with a Russian becomes intimate. Some Americans, including spies and soldiers, are excluded from the new policy. Their roles are still deemed too sensitive to risk pillow talk...
...Embassy in Moscow has lifted its Cold War ban on romance between foreign service employees and Russians. The news was delivered in a memo to embassy employees officially blessing "intimate or romantic relationships" with Russians -- so long as the Americans kiss-and-tell. Under the directive, employees must march into the embassy security office and 'fess up when a relationship with a Russian becomes intimate. Some Americans, including spies and soldiers, are excluded from the new policy. Their roles are still deemed too sensitive to risk pillow talk...
...example, the report cites a memorandum from an attorney who had managed Murdoch's initial FCC application, which states that Fox's ownership structure is "arguably vulnerable to challenge" and that it is therefore "paramount" to avoid any change that "would potentially invite re-examination" by the commission -- a memo known among commission staff members as the "somewhat smoking gun." The commission resolved that this memo "plainly indicates" uncertainty existed about the ownership structure but that otherwise it offered no proof of a deliberate campaign of deception...
...government didn't buy it. "The so-called fix just won't work," Bingaman said last week. As evidence that Microsoft knew the merger would kill competition, her complaint cites the memo of a senior Microsoft official. "If we were to try to buy Intuit ... I can't imagine anyone would be stupid enough to [purchase Money]," the manager writes. "I think they would imagine that we'd never be allowed to do it." The betting now is that Microsoft won't. --Reported by Suneel Ratan/Washington
Worried about the safety of its scientists, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to pull the plug on two FBI World Wide Web pages on the Unabomber and the Oklahoma City bombing, according to a memo circulated between NASA and FBI officials and obtained by TIME. NASA runs the computer server used by the FBI to post and gather information on the two cases. But effective June 30, the memo says, NASA will withdraw its Internet support. NASA scientists, it adds, have "concerns about their vulnerability" if the space agency continues to sponsor the project. A NASA official involved...