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...plain that White House officials are under some pressure to sign the documents. "They can't refuse," said one individual who's familiar with the case. "The worst thing to be accused of here is not cooperating with the investigation." But reporters are not likely to feel the same pressure. Journalists rarely divulge the identities of confidential sources even when threatened with contempt citations so the releases may make little difference. Still, in a post-9/11 world, a case involving the disclosure of a covert agent's identity could be taken very seriously by a judge, who would have...
...Combat snobbery" was a term used to define the British attitude; it also applied to America's new German allies when the Federal Republic joined NATO in 1955. The German veterans who had fought in the great tank battles against the Russians on the eastern front made it plain that they doubted the ability of America's postwar army to check a Soviet offensive if the cold war ever became hot. The Germans, like the British before them, pointed to American reliance on firepower and air cover, an expectation of overgenerous supply of materials, as reasons to question...
When the READER then reads the completed FM Mad Libs story to the other players, they will discover that they have written a story that is hackneyed, contrived, superficial, star-struck or just plain sycophantic—depending on which platitudes each WRITER called...
...story her freshman year and has continued her trend-setting ways ever since. Churning out cover stories like she was born to it, Elizabeth has investigated everything from Harvard’s stingy financial aid policy to controversial campus religious groups. Her unrelenting quest for truth combined with a plain and simple knack to tell a good story means the magazine’s meatier elements are in good hands...
Instead, Grumet-Morris was only spectacular—plain, old spectacular—the same way he’s been for the last month. And, as has become painfully routine, that wasn’t enough...