Word: secret
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...fitting that her family secret is not about abuse or betrayal but about world history and diplomacy. And it is fitting too that the woman who grew up in four countries and speaks five languages now has an even more complicated identity. But for many Holocaust survivors who learn their family history as adults, the trauma lies not so much in the facts but in the fact that they were hidden. Albright, says her sister Kathy Silva, is the reincarnation of their father Josef Korbel. Albright studied what he studied. He set her standards for excellence, integrity and discipline...
...smart and determined, gracious and tough, but the real secret was her charm, exquisite taste and laser-like focus--first on men, later on issues--to ensure that she stayed near the center of every important arena. Sometimes disappointed but never intimidated, she understood from late nights at the knee of her father-in-law Churchill how even powerful men could be plagued by doubts. Pamela once praised Clinton for having the "indispensable requirement of leadership," which she defined as the ability "to tell people not what they want to hear but what they need to know." Her own talent...
...most part we skated well," Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "We created some chances. Its no secret that we've struggled to score goals all season long...I don't think it was our defensive play that hurt us, for the most part, but our inability to execute offensively...
...fact, the pot may have been richer. Rumors have long circulated that Madalyn had stowed away millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. Elder son Bill Murray guesses "tens of millions." He says that as long ago as 1978, Madalyn kept multiple secret accounts around the world, at least one of which contained hundreds of thousands of dollars (declared funds from estates in 1995 came to a relatively paltry $340,000). Withers, the Murray-O'Hairs' legal inquisitor, supports the hidden-money theory, volunteering that a Murray-O'Hair phone log that he had access to featured numbers of Swiss...
...fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...