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...that is, Motivé-e-s will go along. Opinion is divided within the movement on whether a deal with the traditional left, which many militants consider compromised and corrupt, would betray Motivé-e-s' ideals. Others note that the group's goal was never to become king-or kingmaker-but simply to take a stand on issues like bolstering municipal services, improving conditions in Toulouse's immigrant neighborhoods and giving citizens more say in city affairs. "Before this, I never got involved in politics beyond casting a vote, because I just didn't think I could make...
Those who betray must always fear betrayal. It happened to Robert Philip Hanssen a little after 8 p.m. on a Sunday night, just five weeks shy of his planned retirement from the spy game. Ten armed FBI agents shivered in the cold as they watched Hanssen walk up to a "dead drop" code-named Ellis, a spot under a bridge in a quiet suburban Virginia park where he hid a plastic garbage bag full of secret U.S. documents. As he emerged from the woods of Foxstone Park, the agents, guns drawn, surrounded fellow FBI spy catcher Bob Hanssen, clapped handcuffs...
...Clinton pretended to be so uxorious. He was always throwing his arm around his wife, making it seem that they were such lovey-dovey partners. Concerns over sexual orientation have in several instances led to such duplicities. Some believe that once the English spy Guy Burgess felt he had betrayed the idea of heterosexuality, it was an easy step to betray his country. He already felt like an alien at home. But the analogy is too facile. Real hypocrisy, Somerset Maugham once said, "cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a full-time...
...1980s before going off to join the mujahedin fighting Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. But he was an unknown "walk-in" the day he presented himself at the visa office of an American embassy in mid-1996, saying he sought not to receive a visa but to betray his terrorist boss. He said he had been a member of a group in Afghanistan that "wanted to make war against your country," until he stole organizational funds for himself and had to flee for his life. Now he wanted to warn his new protectors that bin Laden's outfit "might...
...Animated by innocence (and helped by his God-given gangling, goggling looks), Nelson, 35, gives an artless, winning performance that doesn't betray his tough tastes. "I have a cold aesthetic," he says. "I don't like schmaltz." Busy and brainy (Laura Linney was a fellow student at Brown and Juilliard), he was editing his soon-to-be released "Othello" adaptation, "OH," while on the "O Brother" location. The down-home authenticity of his performance remains a mystery to producer and cowriter Ethan Coen. "He's a Jewish guy from Oklahoma, so go figure," Coen says bemusedly...