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...daughter's alleged abuse, are fighting back with a Sandinista inquisition. Ortega has used all his tentacles - Sandinista media outlets, government ministries and fanatical party structures - to investigate, slander and harass Nicaragua's feminist movement, which is being informally accused of everything from money laundering and conspiring with the CIA, to "illegally" promoting abortion, pornography and "assassinating children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Ortega vs. the Feminists | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...Lil’ Kristol, Chris Buckley and Newt Gingrich are so busy renouncing McBane on Fox News that our folks can’t get any airtime. Dick, you got any plans for reuniting the gang?” “Well, I was creeping around the old CIA storehouse like always, looking for wiretap microphones. (My office ran out, and I suspect the pool guy at the Wyoming house has been inviting Soviet apparatchiks over to parties when I’m away.) At any rate, I found a few leftover exploding cigars—might be time...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: From Republican Headquarters | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...speak more freely, and I think he did that today.” The lecture series, which celebrates the connection between academics and public service, features individuals with advanced degrees who dedicate themselves to government work. It was established as a memorial to Charles Neuhauser, whose work in the CIA and Harvard’s Center for East Asian Research fostered Chinese-American diplomacy. “Neuhauser was one of the few Americans who knew a lot about what was going on in China during those times—he knew better than scholars,” said Ronald...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Ping-Pong’ Diplomat Visits | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Maybe Body of Lies will break the losing streak. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a fearless CIA operative roaming the Middle East, and Russell Crowe as his Stateside boss Ed Hoffman. The movie was scripted by William Monahan, Oscar winner for The Departed, and directed by Ridley Scott, who proved in Black Hawk Down that he knows how to detonate suspense in the bazaar of political ideas. More important, Body of Lies is based on David Ignatius' best seller, which casts Ferris as a good-guy hero, firmly in the spy-novel tradition, and makes him the agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body of Lies: Leonardo of Arabia | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Maze The explosive events of Sept. 11 made Muslim nations a playground for spies, as Berlin was during the Cold War. But the new boom market was different; KGB agents weren't likely to blow themselves up to make a political point, and the middle-class whites in the CIA couldn't easily pass for Arabs to infiltrate an al-Qaeda cell. Ferris makes use of locals to sleuth out information. But he and Hoffman have a bigger, wilder plan. The notion is to plant incriminating data on a plausible corpse and create a fictional CIA spy who the terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body of Lies: Leonardo of Arabia | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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