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...modest talk fool you. Chua-Eoan is no shrinking violet. A native of the Philippines, he started working at TIME 10 years ago, answering phones and taking lunch orders as the Saturday secretary for the Nation section. Last week, for the first time, he was acting editor of the Nation section and someone else took his calls. In between, he has written stories on everything from pets to Raisa Gorbachev, from the history of World War II to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Two years ago, our sister publication People magazine spirited him and his menagerie away. But life at TIME...
...Pentagon supposedly tried to deceive the Soviets with rigged Star Wars tests in the sky, the FBI attempted to fool the KGB on the ground -- sometimes with comic contortions. In his new book, The FBI (Pocket Books), Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, tells of an operation against a Washington-based KGB officer who was trying to recruit a Pentagon employee. As the Soviet official slept, FBI agents stole his car to plant a bug in it. To avoid suspicion, they put an identical car in the official's parking space overnight. They also made sure...
...Harvard Lampoon ex-president, writer-producer for television's best show (The Simpsons), scion of a tony Boston family (he could do my-father-the-doctor, my-mother-the-lawyer jokes, but won't). And, now, the star of Late Night after David Letterman. "I'd be an arrogant fool if I didn't get nervous," O'Brien says. "What calms me, I guess, is that there are a million things I can't do but I have a core belief in myself that this is something...
...displaying the awkwardness of adolescence, Steve says he lives in almost constant apprehension. "Oh boy, summer is really the worst," he says. "You always have to deal with troublemakers who will push you around for no reason, but now it's really scary. I know I look like a fool if I get in an argument and walk away, but these days it's too dangerous to fight...
...bottom line is that we can't always trust each other and can't always know who is worthy of our trust." Why venture into an F2F when the party on the other side may think it's just a game or an experiment? "I feel like an absolute fool," says Lisa. "People look at a computer and fail to realize that behind those words is a real person with feelings." Welcome back to the real world...