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...gave the third-term Oklahoma Democrat a newly issued series of stamps honoring some of the spy agency's biggest heroes. Included in the set: Kim Philby, the notorious mole in the British intelligence service who defected to Moscow in 1963 and joined the KGB's inner circle. In jest, Senator Boren asked his Soviet host why Philby's equally famous fellow double agents, Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, had not been given their own stamps. "That's the next series," replied Kryuchkov...
...Most of them don't really believe that," Hopkins said. Nellen said she thought such comments were often made in jest...
...this standard. The reader may occasionally conclude that certain sequels in this book did not merit the space assigned to them, but one more often wonders whether, given their considerable talent, the authors may soon be adapting in earnest for Hollywood those sequels which are here presented in jest...
...Even in jest, that kind of talk helps explain why the Pentagon bosses were in big trouble on Capitol Hill until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait rescued them and their budget. Before Iraq attacked its neighbor, Congress was considering very large cuts in defense spending while Cheney was proposing annual reductions of only 2%. Members of Congress were deep in discussions of the peace dividend -- money that could be saved from the $160 billion spent each < year to defend Western Europe from the Soviet Union, and diverted to domestic uses...
...celebrated with big parties. But in this country, people sit and study the details and say, "Let's reserve our joy for later." They do not realize that by then they will be so old that they won't be able to experience the joy. I say this in jest, yet I am serious. The fact that in three or four years the area now contained in East Germany will be flourishing will be a typically German achievement. But the question is, will we enjoy...