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...agent assigned to seduce a target; raven: the male counterpart of a swallow). Beyond these terms are detailed entries about notable spies of yesteryear (Daniel Defoe, Christopher Marlowe), as well as those of more recent vintage (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Whittaker Chambers, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Jonathan Pollard...
...except for a snowball's chance in hell, we would have advised against it. We take long odds every day, but not crazy odds." Others agree. "The tragic end result does not mean that the right decision was not made from the beginning," says Mark Siegler, director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. "The baby's clinical course supports the original judgment that this was a case they could deal with...
...Maclean Rogers, an associate professor of history who voted to deny departmental credit for any course taught by Martin and who helped frame the statement, said he saw no potential infringement on Martin's freedom because Martin could still teach the course...
Part of the answer lies in American society's love for lust and violence. As Mary Nemeth writes in the weekly Canadian news magazine, MacLean's, "...other countries have their lurid scandals. But for sheer volume and variety the American experience--amplified by a hype machine that marries the age-old fascination with sex and violence to the modern miracle of high-tech communications--is unrivaled." Viewers of CNN apparently were so engrossed in courtroom testimony that when the channel switched to coverage of President Clinton's visit to Kiev, angry Bobbitt watchers clogged network phone lines, After...
...harder Canadian officials struggle to hold back the tide, the more ridiculous the battle seems. "People are only talking about Teale because of the ban," says Bob Levin, an American journalist who is an assistant managing editor at the Toronto newsweekly MacLean's. "The ban has backfired." Some Canadian journalists think a review of such restrictions is long overdue. Jim Coyle of the Ottawa Citizen says the ban is "based on the insulting assumption that the public is a pack of morons who would be irretrievably tainted should they know certain facts...