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...Jordan's spy agency, the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), was respected and trusted by the CIA for its ability to infiltrate agents into radical Islamists groups. A mole planted by the Jordanians in al-Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq had provided the key intelligence tip that allowed U.S. forces to kill the group's leader, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, in a June 2006 air strike. (See an audio slideshow about the war in Afghanistan...
...doubles’ point in addition to winning three singles matches at No. 1, No. 3, and No. 5. Co-captain Gideon Valkin, playing at No. 3, rounded out his collegiate career with his 11th straight singles win, “When Gid came on, it was lights on, lights off,” sophomore Chris Clayton said. “He went out with a bang.” Playing at No. 1, Clayton stormed through his final contest of the season, winning 6-1, 6-4 to set a positive tone for the years to come...
...truth is that Hoover loathed blacks and detested their leaders, and so did many of his men. According to an agent quoted by Hoover's biographer Richard Gid Powers, during the early '60s "in about 90% of the situations in which bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word 'nigger' was used." Until 1962 there were only five black FBI agents: Hoover's chauffeurs, houseboy and messenger. During the period dealt with in Burning, Hoover's bureau was indeed engaged in a lawless campaign against an enemy. But its target was Martin Luther King Jr. It began with wiretaps and buggings...
RAGGED BUT RIGHT: GREAT COUNTRY STRING BANDS OF THE 1930s (RCA). Before the rhinestones, country music sounded like this: all heart and no slickum. Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers; Wade Mainer . . . the sounds are as good as the names...
Molly Taylor is a free spirit somehow blooming in a wasteland Western landscape. In the beginning-way back in 1925-a reasonable, ambitious rancher named Gid Frey loves her, but he is not "silly" enough for her taste. His buddy, Cowboy Johnny McCloud, also loves her, but he is too silly-or shiftless-for her. So she marries a real no-count whose fate (he dies a couple of years later) is no matter because before, during and after her marriage, Molly gives separate but equal bedroom time to her two true loves. In the process she bears...