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Military commandos who join the CIA full time are sent to the "farm," the agency's Camp Peary training center, located on 9,000 heavily wooded acres surrounded by a barbed-wire-topped fence near Williamsburg, Va. There the soldiers go through the yearlong course that all new CIA case officers must take to learn such skills of the trade as infiltrating hostile countries, communicating in codes, retrieving messages from dead drops and recruiting foreign agents to spy for the U.S. The CIA wants its paramilitary officers to be able to steal secrets as well as blow up bridges. John...
...bread's available that day), the cricketers would learn a lot. At every meal you hear about other meals missed - a day spent in line or a dinner skipped for lack of maize meal, the local staple. You hear of the shortages brought on by government price controls and farm seizures. You hear frustration over seasons of drought and see angry eyes raised at the clear blue sky. Talk invariably turns to exit strategies. Whites opt for Perth or Cape Town or, worse, chilly London - always "for the children." Among blacks, there's wishful thinking of a job earning foreign...
...Healthy Ma has a one-year contract with the Shanghai Sharks, a shaved skull, a black Fubu do-rag, a red Phat Farm sweatshirt, a U.S. green card, and an American wife and two little sons in Henderson, Nevada. At 33, balanced on a weak right knee, he yearns for one last NBA dance...
...Political Pinata--Full of Farm Products...
...truth or spinning a politically charged fable. By telling his story, Sabbah wants to show "how a human being can be driven to kill innocent people he doesn't even know." The first seven years of Said's life were uneventful: he grew up on his father's olive farm in the village of Beit Ijza near Ramallah. Then, as he tells it in the book, everything changed. In 1981, he says, the Israelis drove his family out and bulldozed their house to make room for a Jewish settlement. "For the first time in my life I felt an undreamed...