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Dartmouth is still a school of obnoxious, drunken laggards who put out pernicious little opinion journals funded by the John Birch Society and show up on my doorstep in a drunken stupor for the Head of the Charles weekend, you say. Right...
...this cinematic extravaganza of another Tom Clancy novel, Jack Ryan even has the same wife (Anne Archer) and child (Thora Birch), but here instead of battling the "other" of the Irish Republican Army, he goes head-to-head with the Columbian drug cartel, and more specifically the links the illegal drug trafficking organization has to the United States government. Ryan even gets to ball out the president played by Donald Moffat. With all of these differences, it seems as if Clancy should have switched the names of the two novels, making this one "Patriot Games" and the other dealing with...
...agency, says Woolsey, must shuck its image as a Waspish sanctuary where a traitor like Ames can go undetected for years despite his profligate ways. "As far as the culture goes, I think some substantial changes are needed," Woolsey said in his birch-paneled CIA office. He readily conceded that his work force needs more diversity. "We are running intelligence collection against a very diverse world -- a world in which there are two genders and lots of people of different kinds of backgrounds and races and cultures," he said. "The CIA will do a better...
Serb forces acceded to the NATO-U.N. ultimatum and pulled virtually all their troops and heavy weapons away from Gorazde. But observers fear they may be moving them northward to Brcko (pronounced Birch-ko), a town on the Croatian- Bosnian border partly held by the Serbs that the U.N. is now considering naming a seventh "safe area." At U.N. headquarters in New York City, the Security Council approved 6,550 additional peacekeepers for Bosnia, after the U.S. withdrew its earlier objections to the cost...
...English public (that is, private) school, might cure all that ails American youth. Comparing Fay's sentence to a headmaster's paddling is fatuous -- but then, as John Updike once noted, old boys of Eton and Harrow can often "mistake a sports car for a woman or a birch rod for a mother's kiss." The pain from flaying with wet rattan, as it is done in Singapore, can knock a prisoner out cold...