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...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
Romano Prodi has had a long history of taking his political hits, brushing off his blue suit and getting back up for another day. But the former and current Italian Prime Minister may be about to suffer the knockout blow on a career that stretches back to 1978, when the ambitious economics professor became one of the youngest cabinet ministers in the country's history...
...this election," said Graham, "as I've ever felt about any election before." McCain - who was famously burned in South Carolina in 2000 after his New Hampshire victory, when a whisper campaign and George Bush's dominance of the state's Republican party structure combined to deliver a crushing blow - was openly nervous. He even asked his staff to switch his exit song at rallies from confident, macho stuff like the Rocky theme to something that would make a softer, humbler appeal to voters. Thus the confluence of John McCain and ABBA's Take A Chance...
...pretty scared. ... There's a black market of nuclear material out there. And we know there are some crazies who are willing to blow up entire civilizations because they feel they'll get rewarded in heaven for it. It's just one more level to be scared about, on top of the environmental thing. Nuclear destruction or being poisoned - one of our nuclear plants could just go kablooey because there are flaws in them. Pesticides, herbicides, all these different chemicals that we've [let loose] on the environment could reach some kind of critical mass...
...around Cambridge: spend a night at the Charles Hotel and treat a few friends to brunch at Henrietta’s Table, or buy a handful of socks at the Andover Shop. But for everyone who wants to escape the memories of finals haunting the Square, you can blow it all on an exotic intercession trip. FM’s trawled the net to compile five of the best deals: Tibet: $500 can net you airfare and a luxurious four night stay in Tibet’s capital city, Lhasa. It may be worth checking out nearby Mt. Everest...