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...just the scientists at Los Alamos who are out to embarrass Bill Richardson. It's the entire world. A General Accounting Office report ordered up by Reps. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.) and Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.) on the espionage risks of nuclear scientists traveling abroad reads like a steamy Bond novel, full of phone taps, hidden cameras and sexy scientists from "sensitive" nations like China, Russia, Pakistan and Israel. It's also a reminder that nuclear security is an all-too-human business, and should confirm to Richardson what he's been muttering to himself for months...
...want to embarrass you by sharing unwholesome intimacies. I mean, I have nothing to be ashamed of. I am as wholesome as you are. But all my life I have had a certain interest in... shoes...
...fake ID? Looking to embarrass the federal government in your spare time? Have we got a job for you: A group of agents working for Congress's General Accounting Office managed to wheedle their way into 19 of the federal government?s most "secure" buildings and two high-traffic airports, leaving red-faced security officers spluttering in their wake. The men, who were clutching briefcases and even told guards that they were armed (though in actuality they were not), carried forged credentials from the New York Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and talked themselves through checkpoints without...
...reached back and threw a few inside fastballs, just to prove he still could. "Oh, get outta here," he told a pack of reporters asking him about various women not his wife. "Get lost!...Don't you guys have the slightest bit of decency? Don't you realize you embarrass yourselves doing this...
...conservative backlash. Since February, the conservative judiciary has closed down the pro-reform press, imprisoning a number of journalists and other prominent liberals. The Council of Guardians has also dragged its feet on ratifying the reformist win in 30 Tehran constituencies, while the conservative judiciary has also sought to embarrass Khatami's efforts to repair relations with the West by charging 13 Jews with spying for Israel in a trial that appears to owe more to Stalin and the Spanish Inquisition than to anything approximating due process...