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...presidencies, Duffy developed a reputation as a maverick with a knack for finding the unturned stone in even the most thoroughly trodden beat--most notably in 1986, when he broke the details of a top-secret U.S. attack on Libya 36 hours before the strike occurred. He's also adept at turning a story's thesis on its head, if that's what the facts demand. "Duffy's strength is that he has perfect radar," says senior editor Priscilla Painton. "He can instinctively sense where the story is going next and what the questions 10 days from now will...
...kind of ruined my day," says Littman, who believes the source of the problem is his latest book, The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen (Little, Brown). Poulsen was one of the more adept hackers ever to work a keyboard, and the first to be charged with espionage (a charge that was later dropped). At one point he won two $50,000 Porsches by rigging radio contests in Los Angeles. (I'd explain, but you'll have more fun reading the book.) Suffice it to say that the terms of Poulsen's probation specify that...
With the pitching staff largely doing its job, Harvard's hitters needed only drive in a few runs, a skill at which they have become particularly adept over the last few games...
...doubts that Blair is clever. Like centrist politicians everywhere, he's adept at embracing prevailing sentiments. By definition, though, the pursuit of centrism often involves following rather than leading. The question then is whether such centrists actually believe what they say and whether their actions in office will conform to their rhetoric. One always wonders whether they're tough enough to arbitrate among competing concerns and constituencies. Often the test comes when the only clean way out of a tangle demands saying no to those who will be offended by a particular decision. Whether Blair passes this test remains...
...November 26, 1996, McVeigh commends an article Bacharach had written about him and provided this clarification: "You quote me as saying that the FBI are ?wizards at PR.? What I actually said is that they are wizards of propaganda . . . If you have trouble believing that the Justice Department are adept liars, come to one of my pretrial hearings, to the trial itself, or ask Richard Jewell." It ends on a note straight out of The X-Files: "People need to question and analyze what they hear, and ponder the motivations of those spreading the propaganda. The truth lies deeper...