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...Aldrich H. Ames' $2.7 million, 7 year spying spree comes to light in dribs and drabs, James "Jesus" Angleton must be doing cartwheels in his grave. Angleton, only posthumously biographized, but long lengendary in the spook community, was the CIA's both hopelessly paranoid and devastatingly effective spy-catcher. He was a man who for thirty years drove himself (and others) crazy trying to stop spy scandals before they got started...
...dean said the reverend preaching the sermon illustrated an analogy between the struggle for equality and baseball, naming first base faith, second hope, third charity, pitcher Christ, shortstop love, catcher the holy ghost, batter the devil, and the umpire God. The reverend then said that theumpire would call the devil out, and slavery out,and segregation...
...NEVER hear anyone speak like former Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics slugger David Henderson. "I don't see any Stanford guys running around here," he once said of his teammates on the A's. "Look at [catcher] Terry Steinbach. He thinks hockey is a sport...
...never passed the QRR: Circus math is different. In a trapeze troupe of five people, the catcher makes the most [money] because he's biggest, and then it goes in order of who does the most flips...
...years has limped through a new-products dry spell, may have regained some of its cachet. Among new consumer products, Sony and other manufacturers viewed lines of video compact- disc players, which provide fare for viewing as well as for listening on standard-size CDs. Sanyo Electric's eye catcher was 3-D television, which does not require users to wear polarized glasses -- and initially will cost at lest $57,000 a set. Both products will be avaiilable...