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...arrest of Pelton and implicated a former CIA underling, Edward Howard, who fled the country in September. Yet the cases do little to clear up the mystery of whether Yurchenko's defection was real; the two small fish he delivered may have been mere throwaways designed to distract the CIA and obscure the fact that he was a double agent all along...
...himself. In a letter to Rabbi Jonathan HaKohein of Luniel (Provence), Maimonides says, "Torah consecrated me to her before my birth . . . She is my true love, the wife of my youth. The other cultures are but women to serve me and cast grace on my wife . . . Regrettably, they distract me from my only life-mate, the Torah." By his own declaration, Maimonides was purely Jewish...
...Wowereit. It was outrageous to feature a Clinton-like character whose sole contribution to Germany has been to paint a feel-good façade over the catastrophic financial woes besetting the economic engine of the European Union. No amount of fashion shows, film shoots and political correctness can distract Berliners from the fact that Germany is facing its most serious crisis since World War II. Wowereit and other Social Democrat party leaders still haven't realized that socialism, in a globalized world, means nothing more than institutionalized mediocrity. Wowereit, like Clinton, makes us feel better, but life must...
...154th annual convention of the International Platform Association, established by Statesman-Orator Daniel Webster to disseminate culture to outlying states and distract them from rebellion, was off and droning. Last week nearly 800 speakers, would-be speakers, booking agents, college program directors and even a few plain old listeners assembled for the I.P.A. gathering at Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The 40 or so established rhetoricians spoke mainly for the fun of it, and perhaps to pick up an extra engagement or two. But the stakes were higher for the competing amateurs, who were hoping to break into...
...Harvard takes the field this weekend, it must not let Yale’s last-place standing distract from the reality of the Bulldogs’ overall team strength...