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...incompetence of HSTO's operators is the stuff of legend. Students have reported all sorts of botches in service. One called HSTO twice during the summer to ensure that her bedroom's line would be in operation when she moved in. Of course, it wasn't. Another wanted to disconnect a line, and HSTO promptly disconnected his PAC code as well...
...sure, Carlos had an evil career. The French charge him with 15 deaths locally; Carlos himself claims 83 victims worldwide. But the legend that credits him with the most notorious terror acts of the past two decades and links him to violent groups in France, Germany, Japan and especially the Middle East is diminished by bungled missions, unimpressively soft targets and years of dissipation from high living and alcohol consumption. While Carlos hid out in the Middle East over the past 10 years, intelligence forces often cleared their blotters by blaming the elusive mastermind for their unsolved cases. Now that...
...also contributed to our coverage of the capture of Carlos, a chapter in a story that might be called the old face of terrorism. To separate fact from legend in this shadowy career, he detailed Carlos' extensive comings and goings in East Berlin during the 1970s and '80s. Explains Van Voorst: "It was a matter of checking documents and prosecution sources to triangulate important clues about Carlos' operations...
Books: The legend of Moe Berg, major leaguer...
What the spirited and diligent writer Nicholas Dawidoff does document, with fresh research, some 200 interviews and unqualified affection, is that the oddball legend of Moe Berg is based mainly on his refusal to take full cuts at his many opportunities. He was a Princeton honors graduate who would have had a longer and more successful career in the classroom than on the diamond; a lawyer trained at Columbia who never established a practice; a linguist with a reluctance to converse in any of the dozen languages he had studied; and a darkly handsome ladies' man who was nevertheless something...