Word: considerations
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That satisfied school officials, who let Mahin enroll, but not the Washington bureaucrats. They advised Greensboro schools attorney William Caffrey that Mahin should be racially classified by using a "rule of reason" or an "eyeball" test. Caffrey did not consider that helpful. Finally he was told that the Education Department...
Minimalists trying to imitate the pin-drop prose of the late Raymond Carver would consider Banks' style uncool. But judging from the author's output, cool seems like a social disease. His structures lack grace but carry the weight of his passion and concern.
Acquaintances have searched in vain for an indication of what might have motivated Bloch's espionage, if indeed the Government's suspicions are justified. Money is an unlikely answer. He still earns $80,000 a year from the State Department, and his wife has additional income. Except for their $328...
The major dissenters were the German commanders who feared British naval and aerial supremacy, and that was why Hitler called off the invasion. But the Germans thought Britain was virtually defeated whether Hitler invaded or not, and a number of historians agree. "Even if he didn't invade us, he...
In Thailand DEA agents and consular officials based in the northern city of Chiangmai said the U.S. should seriously consider shutting down an antidrug program. Reason: official corruption had gone so far that heroin was sometimes being transported in Thai police vehicles or even army helicopters, making the program a...