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...points halfway through the second half, the Crimson decided to display its version of the Boston Celtics' infamous running game. Wendy Carle hauled down the rebounds (she had ten for the contest), and rifled outlet passes to the streaking Caryn Curry and Lesley Greis, who finished off the textbook movements with...
...society. But recent economic woes have caused many French-men to wonder--once again--whether their country should be entrusted to the hands of corporation leaders whose motivations are not perfectly synchronized with the collective good. Despite the cataclysmic warnings of prime minister Barre--author of the basic French textbook on economics--that a victory for the left would be the beginning of the end of economic solvency in France, a recent poll appearing in the newsmagazine Le Point showed that 52 per cent of the electorate would vote for the leftist parties as against 44 per cent...
...designed as a textbook cloak-and-dagger intelligence operation. Clandestine meetings were arranged by passing filmed instructions that were stuffed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. There were coded passwords and complex secret-signal systems. Using these elaborate precautions, the Soviet mission in Ottawa must have felt secure as KGB agents within the embassy seemed to have recruited a spy from Canada's equivalent of the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For nine months, in fact, a Mountie had pocketed KGB bribes totaling $30,500 in exchange for what appeared...
Last week the plot blew up in the KGB's face. Thirteen Russians, most of them diplomats in Ottawa, were unmasked as spies and banned from Canada. It was clear, moreover, that from the start it was the Mounties who had been fielding the classic textbook operation: a sting by a double agent. The KGB appeared so deceived by the Mounties' ruse that one astounded Canadian official said, "One wonders-do they assign their better people here? They seem to have been incredibly crude, gauche and maladroit...
...most obvious, the book is a natural history of dwarfs, giants, hermaphrodites, Siamese twins, mutants, the monstrously fat, the grotesquely thin, dog-faced boys and zoophagous geeks. But the richly illustrated work is in fact a combination sideshow, meditation on human nature and medical textbook of the sort that librarians once kept locked away with scandalous volumes like Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis...