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Although the holy water containers look suspiciously like travel shampoo bottles, and the "Collect `em, Trade `em, Save `em Saints Cards" might be better if they included bubble gum, the management says it doesn't see any compromising contradictions...
...than the diplomatic corps. For the past four years, the CIA has been quietly expanding its NOC program, placing undercover officers in U.S. businesses that operate overseas. The reason is simple. During the cold war, CIA case officers under embassy cover could cruise foreign ministries and cocktail parties to collect intelligence on the Soviet Union. But, as last week's arrest of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef showed, drug traffickers, terrorists, nuclear smugglers, money launderers and regional warlords aren't found on the diplomatic circuit. To penetrate the new threat, unconventional covers are needed. Indeed, President Clinton's newly nominated CIA spymaster...
Collectors are crazy, a little or a lot--gently mad or glittery-eyed gaga. Nuttiness is the only sane explanation for wanting to possess every matchbook cover or baseball card ever printed or for paying $47 million to own a Van Gogh. Or trying to collect every fact in the space-time continuum by memorizing an encyclopedia or deciding to experience one of every kind of lover...
...some reason, I haven't been able to pick up a single book for my new classes this semester. They have been sitting on my bookshelves looking at me disapprovingly and having contests to see which one can collect the most dust. Instead of studying, I've been contemplating the sexiness of Billy Joe, the lead singer of Green Day (What a babe!), and waiting for "When I Come Around" to get played on WFNX. I dunno, I just can't seem to shake the reading period slacker mentality. Besides listen to the radio...
...number of departments collect and send CUE scores for junior faculty when they're being considered for tenure," Buell says. "That's part of the evidence of teaching performance...