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Keefe’s actual rock-solid information on Echelon is slim-to-none, due to the intense secrecy of the program—if the U.S. government blew off the European Union’s recent attempt to learn more about the system, a law school student from Yale can hardly expect to gain more privileged information. Combined with the intelligence maxim Keefe repeatedly cites throughout the book—that there is an inverse relationship between how much actual secret information someone knows and how much they are willing to talk—the possibilities for any substantial...
...Tigers traveled to Pennsylvania three nights later to take on the league-leading Quakers. Princeton pulled out to an 18-point lead, but blew it and eventually succumbed in overtime, killing all Tiger title hopes—a fourth Ivy loss essentially means no chance at the NCAAs...
...which ravaged the country from 1975 until 1990. During his tenure, gleaming hotels and apartment towers sprang up along Beirut's Mediterranean shore. Perhaps that is why it was there, on a bend in the famed seafront corniche just by the five-star Phoenicia Hotel, that a thunderous explosion blew apart Hariri's armor-plated convoy, killing him and 14 others. As the blast showered the pavement with broken glass and sent a column of black smoke into the sky, suspicion quickly focused on the country that has used political assassination to maintain its dominion over Lebanon for three decades...
...you’ve spent so much time together that there are things that only you and 53 other kids share,” says Ma. “Sarah Jessica Parker elected to ask about me at the seminar personally my freshman year when I was sick. She blew me a kiss. As a freshman guy, that’s a pretty phenomenal thing. It gives this group of people a shared experience that seems, on the surface, perhaps kind of insignificant. But it anchors...
Then I thought about Harvard women’s hoops, which blew a potentially huge chance to close in on Ivy leader Dartmouth by losing to Brown, 78-63, on Friday night...