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...every woman who runs a background check on a guy who's asking her out on a date. But if you were a secret agent working undercover, you would be extra careful too. In 1997 Valerie Plame was being courted by a man who had served as a U.S. diplomat in nine countries, many in Africa, and possessed about as high a security clearance as any spy could hope for, but Plame was taking no chances. It was only after several months of dating Ambassador Joseph Wilson that Plame, supposedly a private energy analyst, revealed the name of her true...
...nonofficial cover a few years later. Mostly Plame posed as a business analyst or a student in what Rustmann describes as a "nice European city." Plame was never a so-called deep-cover NOC, he said, meaning the agency did not create a complex cover story about her education, background, job, personal life and even hobbies and habits that would stand up to intense scrutiny by foreign governments. "[NOCs] are on corporate rolls, and if anybody calls the corporation, the secretary says, 'Yeah, he works for us,'" says Rustmann. "The degree of backstopping to a NOC's cover...
...means the prettiest game of the season, but once it was over all the miscues could fade into the background in favor of the more sparkling moments such as freshman Clifton Dawson’s second straight outstanding offensive performance. The tailback finished with three TDs and 183 yards on a whopping 40 carries—tied for the second most by a back in Harvard history—essentially bearing the entire rushing responsibility for the Crimson...
...only comes across when connected with Dewis’ forceful delivery. Indeed, it is only when Fistula is onstage that the production achieves the disturbing surreality it seems to try to achieve elsewhere: a second act monologue in which Fistula invokes the impossibility of Satanic forgiveness against a swelling background of chanting is honestly gripping. An earlier entry of his from offstage, with the only accompanying sound the metallic clinking of uncertain objects inside his overcoat, is downright eerie...
...Condo says. He says that there is much work done already with reliance on external source material. “But one shouldn’t deprive oneself [from the work],” he says. Condo jokingly recommends as prerequisite to his course “heavy background in philosophy and good technical skills” and especially recommends Heidegger’s “Early Greek Thinking...