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...writing anonymous letters." Talking to oneself is cousin to that. It seems a Richard Nixon sort of thing to do. If Nixon did not actually talk to himself, he gave the impression that he did. For all his reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting. You could almost hear him talking--a subliminal tape--even if the words were not audible. Nixon also had the alarming habit of talking about himself in the third person, which is an inverted variation on talking...
...think when you're dealing with seriousallegations like this, the track record show it'smuch more often the case that the secrecy is usedto conceal an improper situation," Gerstein said."The knee-jerk reaction is always to handle thisprivately...
...observed three males hurling very largerocks from the roof," reads the Harvard UniversityPolice Department [HUPD] report on the incident,recorded by Officer George White. "When the threeobserved my presence they crouched down behind thebrick facade, trying to conceal themselves...
...from a friend's father. Standing in front of the mirror, I'd practice saying "Sho, shweethaht" in my best Bogie voice. I carried a pen and pad everywhere and made notes on suspicious individuals (including my eighth-grade science teacher); I bought clothes based on whether you could conceal a gun in them...
...these devices. Amnesty says electric-shock torture or the abuse of prisoners with shock devices has occurred in at least 50 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. "Torturers seem to be discovering that electroshock stun weapons are ideal for their evil purposes--cheap, easy to conceal and hard to trace," says Brian Wood, who tracks the weapons internationally for Amnesty. TIME's own investigation found few international controls over the devices, along with disturbing evidence that stun guns from the U.S., Asia and Europe wind up in countries whose governments practice torture...