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...highest-ranking woman in the West German intelligence service, the deputy head of its Soviet bloc division, whose reports were so good they regularly reached the desks of the head of the KGB in Moscow. Even the head of West German counterintelligence defected to Wolf. "As even my bitter foes would acknowledge," he wrote in his interesting but fundamentally unrevealing 1997 memoir The Man Without A Face, his spy agency "was probably the most efficient and effective such service on the European continent...
...human capacity for evil; on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. A descendant of slave owners, Styron became obsessed as a boy with the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner, which began not far from his childhood home in Newport News, Va. Confessions, written in the first person, drew bitter criticism from black leaders, who called it presumptuous, but won Styron a Pulitzer Prize. Along with Sophie's Choice, the harrowing tale of an Auschwitz survivor that became an Oscar-winning 1982 movie starring Meryl Streep, it cemented his reputation as a literary giant. But his success did not come easily...
...there any viable options to anarchy? More troops? The U.S. military is overstretched and exhausted. Partition? The atmosphere in Baghdad is too chaotic and bitter for a new power-sharing deal among the Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. The last best chance to restore order and hold Iraq together may be a dramatic ecumenical expansion of the Iraqi security forces under new leadership. We need to rectify the most serious error we made in Iraq after our initial military success and restore elements of the Baath Party, especially its former Shi'ite military leaders, to positions of power. Each...
...Iraqi military would have to be part of the package, as would a major diplomatic effort to involve Iraq's neighbors in regional stabilization. It would not be pretty or easy. We would have to find common cause with some very bad actors. I know it would be a bitter pill, Mr. President, but it may be your least worst choice in Iraq--and I believe the American public will be receptive to anything that can bring an end to this sad campaign...
...playing their style,” Walsh said. “They’re very direct and towards the end of the game it started to become a little like kickball and we lost our style of play. But I would still say that even until the bitter end, Columbia never outplayed us.”The Lions’ slumbering attack awoke in the second half, as Columbia fired three shots on target. Led by Odorczyk, the lone senior on the Crimson roster, and supported by freshman goalkeeper Lauren Mann’s five saves, Harvard managed...