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...horn sounded. Half-dozens of Harvard students rushed the floor. The rest remained in the stands, not quite sure what to make of the events that had just unfolded. Maybe they were still waiting for the crushing blow, the timely dagger. Or maybe they were just perpetuating the stereotype of the apathetic Crimson...
...characters: she was buried alive in The Devil Dancer, fatally impaled on knives in Song, shot dead in Piccadilly, Daughter of the Dragon and Lady from Chungking. She committed suicide in Shame and Drifting, Hai-Tang, Tiger Bay and Java Head (poison) and Limehouse Blues and Dangerous to Know (dagger...
...Defense Department, in fact, has had a checkered history with cloak-and-dagger work. The Pentagon set up intelligence units in the early 1980s that were kept secret from Congress. They became rogue outfits, using tax dollars for questionable operations, to pay for expensive hotel rooms, first-class airline tickets and, in one instance, a hot-air balloon and a Rolls-Royce...
...Feinstein--limiting purchases to 190 pills a month--died in committee because of industry opposition. Nonetheless, Feinstein and co-sponsor Jim Talent, a Missouri Republican, say the most efficient way to curtail the spread of meth factories is to deprive them of their raw materials. "This legislation is a dagger at the heart of meth manufacturing in America," says Talent...
After the drama of discovery in the first half, "Suspended in Language" turns into a something of a cloak-and-dagger thriller. When the Nazis occupied Denmark, Bohr remained under virtual house arrest for both his Jewish heritage and his anti-Nazi worldview. He survived this way until 1943 when, days before being taken away, he escaped to England in the bomber hold of an allied aircraft. Eventually he made his way to the top-secret Manhattan Project where his theories were being tested on the making of a nuclear bomb. He soon became a security concern, however, since...