Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...developments around the world. (In this case the mystery visitor left the briefing book behind.) The pouch could also have contained the daily digest of National Security Agency intercepts gathered by ultrasecret satellites and listening devices. These often bear the special code-word classification UMBRA, a category beyond TOP SECRET, reserved for the most sensitive electronic intelligence. Most riveting would have been pages of NSA intercepts dealing with Iraq. Typically, the NSA targets not only hostile countries but also U.S. allies...
...figure out the pouch's contents, the FBI is engaged in the laborious task of reconstructing the "chain of possession" surrounding the documents: who had access to them, when and for how long? Investigators told TIME they have not formally excluded other possibilities--that, for example, a secret-documents clerk innocently botched the document logs or misplaced the material and is now afraid to admit it. Or perhaps the papers were hidden by a disgruntled foreign-service officer. The FBI is moving aggressively on all fronts. Until the facts show otherwise, agents must assume the worst--that the material...
...introduced its tiny Pilot two years ago, the gizmo did all that and more--and hit the jackpot. Sales zoomed to a million, and everyone from Al Gore to Robin Williams was packing one. At $299, the device was cheap (for a computer), hip and elegant. But the real secret to its success? Simplicity. The Pilot was as easy to use as a calendar...
...screen President in Wag the Dog, who is caught in a scandal with an underage girl. Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute Power, who has sex so rough with the wife of a major contributor that she wounds him with a letter opener. That leads his Secret Service agents to burst into the room and shoot her dead. At least for once the cover-up isn't worse than the crime...
...listen to," the Cleveland native says, "from a little bit of gospel, a little bit of folk, to rock and R. and B. If I listened to polka, it would be on the record too." And the mix works. Her rock numbers, like the aching Keep It a Secret and the joyful Love Trap, have edge, and they have soul. At her best, she's a bit like Juliana Hatfield with a small injection...