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When Iraq launched its first air raids on Tehran three months ago, thousands of people fled to the surrounding countryside every night. But despite the continuing threat of high-level bombing runs, there is little about the city to suggest that it is the capital of a country at war. Streetlights are turned off at night but restaurants are crowded, and even when air raid warnings whine from radios, it seems that no one bothers to seek cover...
...also been a vintage year for high-level defections around the world. The most celebrated involved Vitaly Yurchenko, the KGB agent who defected to the U.S. and, three months later, made a grandstand return to the U.S.S.R., claiming that the CIA had kidnaped and tortured him. Information he supplied led to the arrest of Pelton and implicated a former CIA underling, Edward Howard, who fled the country in September. Yet the cases do little to clear up the mystery of whether Yurchenko's defection was real; the two small fish he delivered may have been mere throwaways designed to distract...
When the Justice Department abruptly changed course last week, reducing the penalty sought to $10 billion, critics cried foul, charging it was a reflection of the Administration's ties to the tobacco industry, including a Justice Department with a handful of high-level political appointees who used to belong to law firms that represented Big Tobacco. "The public has to be on the lookout for clandestine negotiations," says Matthew Myers, a witness in the case and president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids...
...committees was told we couldn’t discuss a particular topic because another committee had already done so; unfortunately for the dean who said this, I was on the other committee and knew that it most certainly had not been discussed. At another meeting, a high-level University Hall administrator—who holds no teaching appointment—complained that she was alarmed at how “unnecessarily negative” we committee members were acting in questioning why nobody had informed us of administrative decisions relevant to our work. In one of the most shocking incidents...
Malkin has also devoted much of his career to philanthropy, and has made a point of attracting high-level business-people to charitable causes...