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Apart from that stroke of bad timing, this authoritative reference book rides the espionage headlines exceedingly well. The Soviets' CIA mole Aldrich Ames is here, as is hot-off-the-press documentation gleaned from the long-secret U.S. "Venona" decrypts of Russian intelligence, which pretty much confirm the guilt of the late Alger Hiss. More than 2,000 entries deal with the history of spying, the complexities of cryptography and trade jargon (dry clean: to determine whether one is under surveillance; pianist: a clandestine radio operator; swallow: Russian term for a female agent assigned to seduce a target; raven...
...other top performances, junior Mike Kiedel, a transfer from University of Florida, won the 200 free with a time of 1:40.08 and the 500 free with a time of 4:32.03. Senior Joshua Adams won the 200 breast-stroke with a time...
...experimental drug beats ASPIRIN at preventing heart attacks and stroke without harming the stomach...
Although Harvard had only 6 first-place finishes out of 13 events, the Crimson swept the 200 back-stroke...
...minor facts I had quoted. In short, he succeeded in verifying that I had a working phone number. The ridiculous facts I had checked were included, but my praise for the importance of my job--the entire second half of the article--had been cut! With the stroke of a pen, I had been transformed from a cheerful, hardworking intern to a bitter, sarcastic employee. And people around the nation had read it, and had taken it for the truth...