Word: couriers
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...Rourke, a Harvard courier, watched theshootout from a third-floor window in HolyokeCenter...
...from behind enemy lines. In the modern world of computers, however, encryption -- also known as ``crypto'' -- has moved from the clandestine to the commonplace. The use of sophisticated codes and keys to protect the privacy of electronic exchanges has become the practical equivalent of sending messages by secret-agent courier. In the past year, moreover, encryption has become a code word in itself, representing a raging war that pits government against a broad coalition of private citizens eager to protect their right to privacy...
...year after signing on with the FBI, Polyakov was posted back to Moscow, where he had access to GRU penetrations of Western intelligence. Before long he began serving up moles, including Frank Bossard, a guided-missile researcher in the British aviation ministry and U.S. Army Sergeant Jack Dunlap, a courier at the National Security Agency...
...Graf, Courier, Stich and Edberg may be gone, but as Wimbledon moves through its final week, Gangji and the other 359 umpires employed by the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club for the tournament stoically march through the draw. Underpaid and often abused by the churlish multimillionaires they judge, umpires must display the probity of a Supreme Court Justice, the acuity of a marksman and the patience of a marriage counselor...
...WAITS ANXIOUSLY AT HAVANA'S JOSE MARTI International Airport, scanning the arriving passengers for the courier from Miami. The life of his nine-year-old daughter, deathly ill with a cancerous tumor, hangs in the balance: the doctors have prescribed chemotherapy, but two of the five drugs needed for treatment are unobtainable in Cuba. Both medications are readily available in Miami, only a 30-minute flight away, but the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo bars the unlicensed sale of medicine to Cuba. The father's last hope lies with an old woman who has agreed to smuggle...