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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, Coach Maura Costin Scalise, who has added both a championship ring and a wedding ring to her hand in the past year, begged her swimmers to be merciful...
...farm. Character used to mean demanding more of oneself than one could expect of others. Today, it is riding one's biorhythms to a new high of self-awareness. Being a hero used to involve the self-discipline needed to overcome daunting odds. In our post-mood ring society, being a hero is being yourself...
Gates has a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history and in the 1970s spent nearly six years on loan to the National Security Council staff, where he worked for Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. A career analyst, Gates had no experience in CIA intelligence-gathe ring operations until he became Casey's deputy in April. Although his demeanor is mild, Gates once wrote a blistering critique of the CIA's ill-focused analytical process, and in 1981 Casey picked him to sharpen the agency's information-reporting procedures. The results helped to restore the CIA's reputation after a succession...
Defense of the Realm follows Nick Mullen (Gabriel Byrne), an ambitious young reporter on a story that could make his career. A series of anonymous tips leads Mullen into a spate of stories linking Dennis Markham (Ian Bannen), a prominent Labor Party member of Parliament, to a communist spy ring. The stories--racy Fleet Street stuff filled with call girls and foreign agents--first destroy Markham's marriage, then his career as he is forced to resign his office...
Another TV host propounded a persistent -- and utterly unfounded -- theory that AIDS "was created by the U.S. military and tested on 'undesirables,' who were later released into the general public." That had the familiar ring of a Soviet disinformation campaign that originated last September in the Soviet weekly New Times and has spread as far afield as Zambia and the Philippines in the past six months. Meanwhile, two years after AIDS first hit Japan, Tokyo talk-show panelists were advising viewers to stay away from U.S. servicemen...