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...topped a BBC poll of all-time "Great Britons" two weeks ago. A few days earlier a German scholar grabbed headlines by accusing him of deliberately bombing civilians during World War II. Book-stores teem with his biographies, including new entries by historians John Ramsden, John Lukacs and John Keegan, plus a novel based on his fleeting acquaintance with the notorious spy Guy Burgess. More than four decades after his death, Winston Churchill's shadow falls heavily over Britain...
...have been compromised by leaks from local police and intelligence services. And--as happened earlier this month in an operation at the Shemshahtoi camp outside Peshawar--even if the FBI and their local friends get into a camp, suspects can easily vanish among the maze of adobe huts, which teem with thousands of Afghans who hate the police. In a similar raid on the Jalousai camp, 12 miles from Peshawar, however, the feds were luckier, picking up four Afghans who were al-Qaeda suspects, plus a trove of sat phones and computer diskettes...
...Finally, the officials had to take into account the fact that over the next week, the streets near the World Bank and International Monetary Fund buildings in downtown Washington would teem with anti-globalism activists protesting the organizations' spring meetings. What if a few Al Qaeda operatives managed to infiltrate the crowds and set off explosions near the international lending agencies or other financial institutions? There was no intelligence that such a plot was in the offing, but it was plausible enough that no one could guarantee that it wasn...
...more than a few people wearing t-shirts that now read like epitaphs of a dead career, “1998 All-State Baseball Team,” or “2000 Class AAA Football Champions.” The courts and weight rooms of the MAC teem with FFAs and intramural games are dominated by the shouts, groans and moans of voices that long for a bigger stage but have no place else to play...
...Their names teem with a sort of secret Shakespearean life. I browse through field guides to wildflowers and weeds, and when I read them, I feel as if I have rediscovered a rich, hidden vein of the English language-a parallel universe populated by such vivid protagonists as Carrion Flower and Wild Bleeding Heart, as Vipers Bugloss and Crazyweed, as Hog Peanut, Corn Cockle, Tansy leaf Aster, Showy Orchis, Death Camas, and that damned elusive Scarlet Pimpernel...