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Spying is the faint echo of overt international relations. It is game that, for every player, it pays to play. Every country wants to maintain uncertainty about its plans and actions in the eyes of every other. And every country wants to be as certain as possible about the designs of friends and foes alike...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Spies Like Always | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...escorts was understanding their purpose at all. When she asked why she needed to have two escorts, the anonymous sophomore received "the most inane answer I've ever heard in my life. This lady said you needed to have a man on either side of you in case you faint." Mystified, FM wondered if this was a precaution in case a deb's dress was too tight. "No, it's in case you're too nervous," FM learned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debutantes in Our Midst | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...Apple's stock soared, once-faint key-clicks crescendoed into a deafening tumult in libraries into a deafening tumult in libraries and classes. And the odd set of typed notes mushroomed to 900 megabytes of European Intellectual History transcriptions collected by eager Donald Fleming disciples...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DART BOARD | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

Feldman's masterpieces are not for the faint of heart...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Titillating Sweets | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

...smoke hangs over the city: the government, desperate to limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent some of its precious cash on cheap, dirty oil to fire the electric plants. But nights are still dark and silent; only the light from the tourist hotels casts a faint glow over the ocean-front Malecon. Havana is a ghost of itself, its once vibrant life leached out by hard times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Alone | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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