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...November 1786, with only 50 pounds, a wool cloak, two dogs, a hatchet, and a peace pipe, Ledyard walked through northern Sweden and Finland to reach St. Petersburg, Russia. As he walked, he got in the habit of talking to himself in French: “I believe that wolves, rocks, woods & snow understand it, for I have addressed them in it & they have all been very complaisant to me,” he wrote to Jefferson...
...November 1786, with only 50 pounds, a wool cloak, two dogs, a hatchet, and a peace pipe, Ledyard walked through northern Sweden and Finland to reach St. Petersburg, Russia. As he walked, he got in the habit of talking to himself in French: “I believe that wolves, rocks, woods & snow understand it, for I have addressed them in it & they have all been very complaisant to me,” he wrote to Jefferson...
...epics like, say, The Ipcress File. But Director Penn, whose most successful works in that period were counterculture icons like Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, is not about to be nostalgic about his former competition. Target is a deadpan satire on the old cloak-and-dagger conventions almost to the end, at which point Penn cannot resist staging with self-conscious luridness a scene in which Walter must deal with a particularly sadistic bomb threat...
...James Bond, no more Ethan Hunt, and certainly no more xXx. Using technology as an insulating barrier makes sense from a certain viewpoint, but Keefe argues that the government’s reliance on signals intelligence at the expense of human intelligence—“old fashioned, cloak and dagger, man-on-the-ground spying”—has ominous implications for national security in the present...
...clicked through, I for the first time marveled at Firefox, a crazy, bizarro version of Internet Explorer that somehow blocks pop-up windows. I appreciated the multitudes of movie trailers played through iTunes. I gasped at how my first semester grades benefited from some kind of invisibility cloak built into the Registrar’s website. Amazing...