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Granted, the Ad Board is not the KGB, and it is unlikely that miscarriages of justice occur so readily. But by all accounts, something is quite wrong with the punishment handed out in the case at hand. The facts are as follows: John Burnham, a football recruit from Washington, D.C., was taken to the D.U. one Saturday in February. He argued with Sean Hansen '95, after which time Burnham left the club. He returned to the club to confront Hansen, and a fist fight erupted. It is not clear how the fight began--almost everyone at the scene was drunk...
Deborah E. Kopald '95, who is a Crimson editor, said she found the writing process exhilarating. Her thesis, titled "The Eternal KGB: From Perestroika to Post-Communism," required "unconventional routes of ferreting out information...
...also been cashiered from intelligence and given a professorial post where, his former masters hope, he will stay out of trouble. Tim was one of those masters; he recruited Larry into spying and "ran" him, in the parlance of the trade, for some 20 years, while a succession of KGB chiefs in London were fooled into believing that Larry was actually working for them. Despite his skill as a double agent, Tim's protaga retains a belief in his own innocence, a Byronic flair with women and a hunger for lost causes. "My sin," Tim reflects, "was to promote...
...Larry disappears. The inquiring police take a cheeky tone with him: "Yes, well, your ... friend has gone a bit missing, to tell you the truth, Mr. Cranmer, sir." And then Tim is called back to his former office to be grilled and told something astonishing: Larry and his last KGB contact have somehow stolen some L37 million from the Russian government. His ex-bosses think the high-living Tim may have shared in the booty. They demand his passport and order him to talk to no one but them...
...this new reincarnation of the KGB sought only to crush the growing Russian Mafia, its formation would undoubtedly have the public sanction of more than one major government. But, in a characteristically spy-like manner, the new KGB has suddenly arisen behind the scenes and away from the spotlight...