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...years denied its existence. The NSA, which gathers intelligence for national security purposes by eavesdropping on overseas phone calls and cables, did everything in its power to make sure nobody had a code that it couldn't break. It kept tight reins on the "keys" used to translate coded text into plain text, prohibiting the export of secret codes under U.S. munitions laws and ensuring that the encryption scheme used by business -- the so-called Digital Encryption Standard -- was weak enough that NSA supercomputers could cut through it like butter...
...realm that our sense of ourselves as individuals and as communities and as nations is forged. The way I'm working lately is to identify various issues and problems that seen to leap out at me from other geners, other media...and then to interogate these through a literary text...
Rabin's parliament, which has never before unanimously agreed on the text of a resolution, is composed of parties ranging from the left-wing Meretz, which supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, to the far-right Moledet, whose platform of Palestinians from the West Bank...
Through auditions he selected two black youths, a white, one of Indian descent and one of mixed race (or, in South African parlance, colored). After school and on weekends, he will meet with them to develop a text based on their experiences and hopes, to be performed in June and July in schools and at a festival in his hometown of Port Elizabeth, then on a professional stage in Johannesburg...
...musical appeal. One chapter, entitled "The Unspeakable Marriage of Words and Music," describes not an egalitarian relationship, as Wagner dreamed of, but a constant exchange of submissions. When interviewed, Koestenbaum readily admits his lack of experience with European languages, which limits his perception of the true balance between text and music intended by the composer; however, he still manages to capture something of the incomparable and rich sensation that the sung word brings about in the listener, setting it apart from all other earthly sounds...