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...GAME OF SPYING IT'S CALLED THE "feed." When an intelligence service wants to plant a double agent--a spy who defects to a hostile service but is actually still working for his old agency--the agent is often given real secrets to pass along. The "feed" information is designed to lure the enemy into accepting him so he can begin passing along phony material that will cause them to waste money and resources. During the cold war, the CIA became the master of the feed. So generous was the agency with its information that many KGB officers...
Amir saw himself as an agent of God, much as Lee Harvey Oswald saw himself as an agent of "history." The young man's mania lay in this desire for greatness. Amir created a destiny for himself that would make him greater than Rabin. One brutal act would propel him out of obscurity. One brutal act would make him a hero or a martyr...
...shoot, but that's no big deal since she kept much the same hours at NBC's Today show for 15 years. Seles and her entourage arrive blithely late, but if Walters is annoyed, she hides it well, chatting up the young tennis star and letting the agent from the International Management Group know that if Jennifer Capriati, the troubled young tennis star whom IMG also represents, ever decides to talk...
...self-employed insurance agent, McSweeney advocates consolidating city services and rolling back property taxes...
...whom to choose? The man as he is or the man as he was? An inescapable part of being human is the inability to make such black and white decisions. It means coming to the realization that Arafat today is a necessary agent in the long awaited establishment of peace in the Middle East, yet acknowledging that he has left us with a bitter aftertaste. We must respond to the Arafat of today, while reflecting on the Arafat of yesterday. To dwell on the latter in spite of the former undermines the very peace effort we are working so hard...