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John Le Carre's novels, in which secret agents confound one another with twisted espionage games, may have taken inspiration from legendary, real-life Soviet master-spy Alexander Feklisov, the cold-war operative who ran some of the KGB's deadliest spies in the West. Feklisov's recruits included Julius Rosenberg, widely believed to have provided information on the Manhattan Project, and German scientist Klaus Fuchs, who had worked at the Los Alamos lab. Feklisov was pivotal in his country's acquisition of the nuclear bomb, first exploded in 1949, some five years before U.S. agents expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 12, 2007 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...chief evangelical critic, Yale president Timothy Dwight. The Jeffersonians bit back. "Now I don't know that John Adams is a hypocrite, or Jefferson a Deist," one wrote, "yet supposing they are, I am of the opinion the last ought to be preferred to the first [because] a secret enemy is worse than an open and avowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Declarations of Faith | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...fact that they are (a) out of style, (b) unflattering to most body types, (c) reminiscent of a time on “Saved by the Bell” when Kelly and the girl who was in “Showgirls” decide to put on a secret talent show at Max’s Diner, then I can’t help you anymore. I am only one person; a small, powerless female, in fact. I have already written two articles on this subject of leggings, two years in a row. I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio must have...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Please, Never Wear Leggings Again | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

PostSecret creator Frank Warren started his talk on Tuesday with a remark that demonstrated the simple honesty upon which his project is based. “My name’s Frank and I collect secrets,” he said. At an event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store, Warren entertained a packed Brattle Theatre audience with the story of his project and shared some secrets that did not make it into his newest book, “A Lifetime of Secrets.” PostSecret encourages people to anonymously submit postcards containing secrets they have never told anyone...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Satirical Self-Help Manual Ends Up as Sad Self-Mockery | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...first-year teacher, I can hardly claim to be the most effective educator Helena has ever seen. But simply by opening our doors every Monday for Math Club, we teachers are filling the Abyss. The secret? Farmer Bob, not federal dollars. As my students will tell you, millions in government subsidies plus an ever-growing Abyss is still, sadly, less than zero...

Author: By Charles J. Mcnamara | Title: Teaching for America, In Rural Arkansas | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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