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...even after Madrid, Europe has been slow to respond. The office of the European terrorist czar, created after 3/11, has just three employees. "Often we need attacks to get serious," says Stefano Dambruoso, Italy's top antiterrorism magistrate until last year. Until recently, the British were notoriously indulgent of hate-spewing imams and the fanatics who worshipped at their mosques. "It took years to convince the British authorities that they had a significant homegrown Islamic threat," says a recently retired FBI counterterrorism official. "I remember being there in 1999, and one of our guys joked, 'If you don't start...
...Estaing. Nixon produces a steel cigarette case inscribed with the words "To our leader, from the GOP." Giscard opens a silver case bearing the simple inlay "To my dear Valery." Brezhnev shrugs and flips open a massive gold case, with the inscription set in diamonds: "To our beloved Czar Nicolas II, from the grateful Russian gentry...
Ryan M. Travia, the former coordinator of alcohol and drug education at Dartmouth College, will become Harvard’s first alcohol “czar,” the University announced last month...
...earthy that the staff voted thumbs down. Reagan, undaunted, laughed heartily. He may be keeping something about Gorbachev even from them. "We achieved a certain personal chemistry," Reagan says. "There was no animosity. I think I have some room to maneuver with him. He is not a total czar in his nation. He has his own problems like I have mine. He needs to go home with something...
...order to be able to continue more easily to be her mother's lover." As a gossip, Field has it both ways. Nabokov's grandmother Maria and Alexander II "must have been fleeting lovers." In one breath, this relationship could mean that the novelist's father was the Czar's bastard son. In the next gasp, the possibility is dismissed on the ground that Alexander had another mistress at the time. There is solid evidence that Nabokov was a randy young adult and had at least one serious extramarital entanglement. There is also the assertion that he was a spiritualist...