Word: secrets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Clinton may have her own problems. Last week, after a complaint by Giuliani, Congress launched an inquiry into whether Clinton is violating campaign rules by paying only first-class fare rather than the full cost of the military charters the Secret Service insists she take. In the absence of any precedent for a sitting First Lady, she is following the usual practice of presidential candidates...
...coveted invitation came. Alone of his classmates, Putin was recruited to join the Soviet secret police that had marched into Hungary, crushed the Prague Spring, imprisoned dissidents in the Gulag. The service offered a privileged lifestyle and a chance to see the forbidden world of the West. Putin was trained in the ways of the spy and given the perks reserved for the communist elite. He was eventually placed in the First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence, not dissident surveillance) in Leningrad, and there he seemed stuck for nine years, evidently not the top of his class. Sometime during these years...
Putin has made no secret that while Russia needs a functioning market economy, the state must play a role in initiating the reforms that will make that happen. His is a very paternalistic brand of capitalism. "He knows he needs Western mechanisms," says Keith Bush, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at CSIS in Washington. "But he wants to make sure these mechanisms are thoroughly supervised...
Sunday, March 11, 2000. 6:30 p.m. As soon as the super-secret NCAA committee in Kansas City had finished giving out berths, people began chewing their pencils, scratching their heads and sweating out their picks for the entryway (ahem, office) pools. UCLA's pretty hot, right? But they'll lose to Iowa St,.second round, easy. Indiana's a goner--Bobby Knight's teams always choke. Tark's back! And you gotta watch out for Appalachian State--a 14-seed always beats a three-seed first round. Always...
Most undergraduates have never heard of the Society of Fellows. The group is not a secret, but their solitary research projects can keep them isolated from the rest of the University...