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When I ask him about the mechanics of putting out a mock issue, his comments are vague but intriguing: "There are various ways of getting the fonts," he assures me, divulging that "sometimes you go on raids." While the recent parodies didn't require any covert activity, in the past, "there have been more paramilitary-type efforts...
...outraged moral conservative in the pages of the New York Times. But for antidivorce activists to make Kramer an icon for modern self-indulgence would be to miss the mark. Beneath the book's air of moral relativism lies a low-key celebration of austerity, even a quiet, almost covert conservatism. The closest thing to a central message is the advice Kramer gives during one of the book's fictional case studies: "The problem is not your choice; the problem is how you live with that choice...
...Boston over the last nine years brought controversy and outcry from Boston officials enraged by what The Boston Globe called Harvard's "stealthy land grab." Though the total secrecy-over such a long period of time-with which Harvard brokered its real estate deals reminds us disturbingly of a covert military operation, it is understandable that the University would need to hide its identity from sellers eager to cash in on the school's endowment...
...pain in the neck," says a veteran Justice hand about the proliferation of plumbers' squads. "Some days, we spend a lot of the day being interviewed." Among the offending disclosures: a Washington Post story by Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy that detailed U.S. intelligence intercepts of a covert Chinese-government scheme to funnel illicit money into political campaigns; revelations of plea-bargain negotiations between Justice and Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, a Saudi dissident nabbed in Canada and suspected of driving a lookout car for the truck bombers who killed 19 U.S. servicemen in Dhahran last June; reports that...
...huddle near the ends of the rows as if somehow, these coveted seats could offer salvation. In less crowded trains, even stricter codes of propriety are observed. The every-other-seat rule is assiduously practiced as both genders stretch out arms or legs in a not-so-covert attempt to prevent other people from occupying adjacent seats...