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...saga began in the early 1980s, when James J. Smith, an agent in the bureau's foreign counterintelligence unit in Los Angeles, recruited Leung. Under the code name Parlor Maid, she received $1.7 million from the FBI over nearly two decades. The bureau says the two quickly began a sexual relationship that continued after Smith retired in 2000. During rendezvous at Leung's home, investigators say, she took documents from Smith's briefcase and photocopied them...
...Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf followed a simple code: when life hands you lemons, insist that, despite the heinous lies of the infidels, they are in fact lemonade. In a war that produced no Scud Stud, al-Sahhaf emerged as a strange sort of cult icon, appearing daily before a bank of microphones in Baghdad to bark, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" and "Our initial assessment is that they will all die," and "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis." An Egyptian woman called al-Sahhaf "the only entertainment...
...Espalier on a second date. No matter how ga-ga you are about someone, it just ruins everything to seem so damn serious so soon. Try imagining a more awkward situation than going from a couple of friendly lattes to a dinner that has a dress code. If you were a girl, what would you think? Exactly. This guy I don’t know from a can of paint expects une peu d’action...
...irrepressible realists of Condi Rice’s ilk, we refer to the national interest: swelling global hatred toward America will only further increase our foreign military commitments and domestic security threats. These threats have already boosted our national terrorism barometer to Code...
...mean, come on. Talk about violating the Ivy League’s code of sportsmanship. It’s inconceivable to me that a Harvard sporting event—the Harvard of such class acts as squash coach Satinder Bajwa and three hundred years of gentlemanly history—could end in a postgame fracas worthy of Paulie Walnuts...