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Both Harbater and Pierrehumbert confirm they experienced the same Greek life 30 years...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burden of Proof | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...reason is that only the handlers in the French, British, and German agencies that Nasiri claims to have worked for could confirm his legitimacy - and they'll never dish. "Even intelligence documents circulated within secret services won't ever say who informants are, or even identify exactly where they are active," the French official comments. Why such inner-circle security? Because circles can develop holes. "Getting informants deep inside operative groups is so rare - and the information obtained from them so potentially vital - that agencies will do anything to protect those sources," he explains. Such care also means anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy or Scam? | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...only other people who could confirm whether this story is true or false are the author's former al-Qaeda comrades," the official says with a laugh. "And as frequently flawed terror reporting and vapid books by so-called experts attests to, those people don't write many letters of denial to newspaper editors or publishers to set the record straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy or Scam? | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...claw and hammer to break open the door to Moore-Bosko's apartment, but police found no signs of forced entry or struggle. Deborah Boardman, a lawyer from the high-powered Washington, D.C., law firm Hogan and Hartson who worked on the case, hopes the judge's decision will confirm for the Governor that the other sailors are innocent and grant them full relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throwing Out a Murder Confession — and Conviction — in Virginia | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...gutsy thing to do--to make fun of your own image--because it could misfire horribly or, worse, confirm everyone's suspicions about you. But of all the traits needed for stardom, the one Winslet really radiates is confidence. With few exceptions (there was a short-lived marriage, before her current one to director Sam Mendes), she knows what she wants and how to get it. And as she put it, "I don't do anything by halves." Her coffee is taken very hot and strong, her unfiltered cigarettes rolled by herself--although, she says, she only smokes during interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate in The Raw | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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