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...agents. The diplomatic gaffe was surprising enough: the U.S. keeps contacts with Taiwan at arm's length out of deference to China, and visits to the island by key diplomats are very infrequent and require top-level approval. But the intelligence blunder?exposing himself to blackmail by making the secret trip?was even worse. "Even if he pulled [the trip] off," says one shocked former colleague, "he would then be totally in Taiwan's pocket because they could threaten to go public with it at any time...
...emissary to the war in the former Soviet province of Nagorno-Karabakh, and served as No. 2 in the Department of State's bureau of intelligence and research. In the Bush Administration he was named deputy to Kelly in the Asia bureau, where he had a top-secret security clearance. But his career was not free of scandal. Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright suspended him and five colleagues after the disappearance of a computer containing classified information. Friends also say he was known for difficult relationships. He had married and divorced several times, although for the past...
Every fall, I see a paradoxical syndrome particularly prevalent among Harvard students: in public, a know-it-all swagger; in private, a secret concern that they are admissions errors...
...book begins with the three of them exiled from their home, Boneville, thanks to one of Phoney's ill-advised ruses. Lost and yearning to return home, they find themselves trapped in a secret valley full of dragons, talking animals and scary rat creatures. Humans live here too, including Thorn, a pretty farm girl whose parents have died, leaving her in the care of her apple-cheeked yet oddly strong Gran'ma Ben. As the Bone's lives become more entwined with Thorn's it becomes clear that she has a secret past that her Gran'ma has been keeping...
Viewing the scene from across the street, some students said they were convinced that the guest was in fact the famous singer, though the staff of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, refused to comment on the event...