Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convinced was Angleton that there was a mole in the inner sanctum of the Agency that he effectively halted all espionage efforts in Russia, fearing that whatever information could be gleaned would find its way back to Moscow via the mole...
November 5, 1993. There was a mixer for all compers at The Crimson tonight, up in the Sanctum. It was good; we liked the popcorn. Didn't get any magazine work done. Where are the sex scandals...
...Madonna and Jackson retreated to some celebrity inner sanctum with security befitting a visiting Pope, but the young garage-band superstars -- Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Spin Doctors -- were as ingenuous and casual as their audience. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was mistaken for a nobody until he produced his all- access laminated pass for an effusively apologetic security guard. When his wife Courtney Love appeared with their infant daughter, she pleaded with the paparazzi, "Hold it, my baby needs some psychic space." By the count of three, however, the child had apparently recuperated, and rock-star wife and rock-star baby posed...
...value of the Harvard name and its annual number one ranking in the U.S. News and World Report college ratings attracts students into the applicant pool with the promise of prestige and access to the inner sanctum of the Ivy League...
Some Black students have even joined the inner sanctum of the white, Old Harvard establishment: the all-male final clubs...