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Austin-Healys and buxom blonde starlets do not impress John le Carre. The veteran British spy novelist writes fiction, not fantasy; the fast cars and bikini-clad counterspies that dominate the pleasantly foolish world of James Bond and Matt Helm have no-place in his books. To le Carre, the cloak-and-dagger game is really a business, and the men and women who work at it are hardly likely to decorate cinema marquees...
Bell and the Criminal Division of Justice settled for a compromise, hoping to provoke a storm that would blow over with the passing of a few weeks. They persuaded Helms to enter a plea of no contest to significantly reduced charges, thereby officially recording Helm's guilt without risking the disclosure of information in an open courtroom that could damage the country's national security interests. Or so the argument goes...
...city. But now that the Cambridge manager's stay in office is not a divisive issue in the city council, and now that Sullivan has built up a fiscal record with which councilors can't argue, the city manager may once again be facing a decade at the helm...
...those of you who don't already know, it was in 1971 during Joe Restic's first campaign at the Crimson helm. A 21-10 throttling at the hands of Princeton had just dropped the Harvard record to 3-4, and the team had to wrap up its season on the road...
Cornell (0-4, 0-6) opened a 7-3 lead in the second quarter, but then reserve Big Green quarterback Buddy Teevens took over the helm to lead the Woodsmen to victory. Teevens got a little help from running backs Curt Oberg and Sam Coffey, who combined for 156 yards rushing...