Word: secret
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Born in Shillington, Penn., in 1932, Updike first submitted work to national magazines while in high school. At Harvard he was the president of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...American President--Theodore Roosevelt--discretion has been a working principle. Early in the century one of them wrote that unless they ignored presidential confidences that they saw or heard on the job, the Commander in Chief would never let them close enough to provide protection, and so a Secret Service agent, he wrote, must be "deaf, dumb and blind...
...agent has ever testified against a President in court. But no President has ever been pursued by anyone quite like Kenneth Starr, who wants to question agents about Bill Clinton's meetings with Monica Lewinsky. Last week the Secret Service hit back in court with a novel defense the Administration has been testing in public for a while. In a sealed court filing, lawyers for the Justice and Treasury departments argued that agents can refuse to testify because they are shielded by a "protective function" privilege similar to the one that covers spouses, doctors and clerics...
...Secret Soprano. She ought to be in the Pitches, but somehow missed the auditions. Only her roommates have access to her early morning shower concerts and know that she knows all nine minutes of "American Pie" by heart...
Alas, there's something different in the air this fundraising season. It's no secret that the Harvard Radcliffe relationship has been a bit strained lately. And it's been clear for some time that this is no mere marital spat. Radcliffe alumnae opened (or reopened) the battle last year by taking Harvard to task for the low percentage of women in its tenured faculty. They implied that if Harvard women want to help Harvard women, they'd do better to donate to Radcliffe than to stuff the coffers of the old boys club...