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...activities of the CIA in domestic spying and government toppling are profoundly disturbing. The CIA must be kept under wider review by both the Legislative and Executive branches of the government. However, it would prove to be a very reckless course to insist on a package deal which would end all intelligence operations. Michael Segal...
Horowitz replaced the microphones, carefully closed the trunk, and walked into the offices of the little firm, a manufacturer of pinholes no wider than a wavelength of light, and found that now he had to wait. The owner of the firm was on the telephone, but Horowitz didn't mind. He glanced through some brochures on laser equipment, and then stared into the rain, wondering how long it would take his dog, a Siberian husky, to dry when he returned home that evening...
...while it is important to understand these basic concepts, they do not become apparent immediately. They are hidden within an intrigue involving the box man's tentative release from his lonely enclosure, a release finally procured by a woman's love, which ultimately becomes yet another box. Within this wider story Abe presents case-studies showing that violence creates its own box, that the suicidal impulse, the frenzied quest for total release from one's box only creates an eternal box, and even that the voyeuristic act of peering from one's box at others must result in a greater...
...world's most fragrant (they burn eucalyptus logs), huffs up and down mountainsides, as does Chile's Antofagasta & Bolivia. The great Sud Express from Paris to Madrid - with a stop at the Spanish border for a change from standard-to broad-gauge (more than half a foot wider) undercar riage - still hauls magnificent Pullmans with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star menus. There are other royal rides for those who like to look an English cowslip in the eye or find out for them selves that Mussolini did indeed make Italy's trains run on time...
...deep-set Syrian arch on the Widener side and the fortress doors that open wider than any other Harvard entrances can't prepare us for the horrors of dilapidation that wait inside. The clattering pipes, the papering done over in a demon green, the creaking stairs. The deceptiveness of time an place: no clocks, uneasy room-numberings that make us jump from floor to floor. Use of the word "egress." When H.H. Richardson designed the building in 1878 he and his associates paid careful attention to the details of the inside; and the outside, as well, was keyed to function...