Word: secret
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Every political event has a Craig Livingstone standing somewhere near the stage. He's the overweight advance man who's trying to look like a Secret Service agent--the one conspiring into his cell phone and swaggering through the crowd with beepers and walkie-talkies bristling from his belt. Every campaign needs people like Livingstone; they book the hotels, hire the copy shops, polish off the buffet-table spreads and try to make others at the hotel bar think they were in the room for the big strategy session. If the candidate wins, some land staff jobs with impressive-sounding...
...title came with a basement office and little clout. Livingstone, in his mid-30s, has no law-enforcement background, and the Secret Service handles all the real security work, but it lets him stroll the corridors of power, exuding an air of mystery and importance. "Basically, my job is to be invisible," Livingstone told a reporter two years ago. "If I'm around, something's wrong...
...series of break-ins was reported last week at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, resulting in the theft of several Lampoon artifacts including brass dishes, a wolf pelt, a bottle of 1990 Chenin Anjou and an autographed copy of The Poetry of Leonard Nimoy...
...Martha Stewart relies on people's actually doing what she suggests, as opposed to just watching her do it, she would be very poor indeed, instead of a multimillionaire empress of elegance. The real secret to Martha is that the perfection she is pursuing is so out of reach of anyone without a staff, or who sleeps more than Martha's four hours a night, that there is no obligation to actually do it. Being in Martha's thrall is like buying a treadmill and instantly feeling fit even though it serves mainly as a coat rack; acquiring the Martha...
Your special report on the upcoming election [RUSSIA '96, May 27] suggests that Russian voters face a return to Gulags, secret police and totalitarian control over every aspect of life. This sounds more like election propaganda than informed analysis. Sure, it seems ominous that a Communist candidate like Gennadi Zyuganov is doing well with the voters, but having gone through their own Great Depression, many Russians just want to throw the rascals out of office and try something different. Americans are not well served by stories that try to reduce the complexities of Russian politics to good guys...