Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...older, Kennedy began taking the 79th Street crosstown bus to school, just like any kid might; he made sure to exit through the bus's front door, while the Secret Service agents who followed him everywhere used the rear one. And the agents were there when Kennedy, Straus and another friend went to their very first rock concert, Bob Dylan and the Band at Madison Square Garden...
...Khatami had squeezed through the conservative-controlled vetting process despite making no secret of his commitment to building a more open civil society in Iran, widening democracy, entrenching the rule of law and normalizing Iran?s relations with the international community. After all, he is a cleric and a veteran of the revolution, and is able to articulate his aims as consistent with its original goals. But his landslide victory was a repudiation of Khameini?s hard-line policies, and the conservatives immediately launched a counterattack, arresting key supporters on corruption charges, attacking liberal theologians and closing down reformist newspapers...
...whether he trained the hit man. At times, he says, he imagines himself sitting next to the killer, checking his technique as he carries out the hit. Alexei--a pseudonym--is still in his 30s and was until a few years ago a senior officer in the Spetsnaz, the secret Russian special-forces units modeled on the U.S. Delta Force. When it comes to killing, Alexei knows of what he speaks: he was a specialist in the "physical elimination" of adversaries...
Equally striking is the way the public's view of the Spetsnaz has changed. Ten years ago, the special forces were regarded as the country's secret weapon, the men who had overthrown the President of Afghanistan in his own palace and would strike deep inside Western Europe if a new world war broke out. This has changed. The most popular video in Russia last year was Schizophrenia. An unremittingly bleak portrayal of modern Russia, it tells the story of a Spetsnaz-type officer who is framed by the security police and then forced to assassinate a banker planning...
...members have known one another and played together for a decade in some cases. They won the Olympic gold medal in 1996, and some, including Akers, were around in 1991, when the team won the inaugural World Cup, held in China, where the event apparently was kept a state secret. Indeed, the team barely played the next year because U.S. Soccer couldn't afford to pay anyone...