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...Gates hearings Senators struggled to determine the nominee's role in past CIA enterprises and whether he was acting out of principled belief or narrow ambition. Whatever your conclusion on those issues, the hearings revealed the CIA in the 1980s as an institution determined to portray Soviet communism as an ever growing threat, no matter what the evidence. The agency produced an intentionally one-sided report on possible Soviet involvement in the assassination attempt on the Pope and presented it as a balanced view -- in support of Director William Casey's conviction that the Soviets were behind all international terror...
...Most students can see a distinction between their performance and their feeling of adequacy," Catlin says. "A particularly difficult situation is when a person bases his or her self-esteem in a very narrow area of performance--like, say, ice skating--especially if they've been told that they were the best in high school...
Another problem taken up at the conference was that of South Africa's prosecutors, which have in the past claimed a narrow sphere of responsibilities, Heymann says...
...most lasting impression from this city of domes and spires, synagogues and mosques was the sight of the Temple Mount, surely one of the most overwhelming plazas anywhere. Rising above the narrow, cramped quarters of the city, the open areas surrounding the A1-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques provide freedom of space and a breath of fresh air. Up here, one is allowed the tranquility to wonder how, if ever, peace will come to Jerusalem...
SETI probes focus on microwave frequencies ("the quietest radio band in nature everywhere," according to Arnold) and seek out narrow band emissions that the scientists believe may have been artificially produced. As Arnold sees it, these signals could be anything from "leakage from a radio transmitter, which simply tells us that at one point there was a culture that used radar... to full-blown wide and band universal television...