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...name is Faida, her eyes are empty, waterless like the rest of her body, and Isabel can not find a vein to insert the intravenous tube that could save her. "The blood vessels close down as they are dying," she explains, failing to find a vein on one arm and trying the other. The girl resists: "Leave me alone." Isabel withdraws. "This one wants to die," she says, and the wound will kill her anyway...
...there are some experts who think the CIA is beyond repair. "The CIA should be shut down because its banner has too many cold war stains," says William Odom, a retired three-star Army general who ran the National Security Agency, the government's electronic eavesdropping arm, during the Reagan Administration. The Pentagon and State Department could perform most of its tasks, he says, and a new, truly secret unit could handle spy missions...
Wren said his guess is that some Harvard student organization "which smokes cigars" took the arm from the approximately century-old maiden...
Wren, who has been in charge of renovating the 111-year-old store for about two years, re-attached the arm, which holds out wooden cigars, on Tuesday and also repainted the figure, brightening up the white-faced, bluedressed maiden...
Passers-by, according to Wren, are also pleased to see the figurine restored. He said that customers have asked him constantly for the past two years what exactly happened to the arm...