Word: secretion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...always be on one’s toes. Learning early in my freshman year that most people do not find it endearing to be greeted with their recent athletic conquests upon a first introduction, I find myself always on high alert, pretending not to recognize those who are secretly my game-day best friends.A quick personal anecdote to illustrate this danger can be seen in my interactions only a few weekends ago. Through mutual contacts, I found myself in the room of a blocking group of teammates from one of the sports for which I cheer. I made...
...people. It takes a year or so to reveal why they’re really doing it. We’re all doing it because we want to be senator and governor and president.” The way she describes the UC—the intrigues, the secret meetings, the positionings and counter-positionings—it sounds like the court of the Medicis. Each interaction with a housemate in the dining hall, she told me, can be read as an attempt to solidify your political position. Of the politically minded juniors she knows, “Caleb?...
...response to Washington's claim that the Syrian site bombed by Israeli warplanes in September of 2007 was part of a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. The Israelis kept mum about their reasons for attacking the site, but the U.S. let it be known that the target was a secret nuclear reactor being built with North Korean assistance - a claim that was widely viewed through the prism of false U.S. claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the Bush Administration's animus toward Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime over its support for Hizballah and Palestinian radical groups, as well...
...American school and cultural center in Damascus, and forced American Fulbright scholars based at Syrian institutions to leave the country. On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the most recent raid was simply one of dozens that had been conducted on Syrian territory by U.S. special forces under secret orders signed by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...
...news about the secret U.S. raids into Syria and the possibility of a Syrian nuclear weapons program paint a darker picture of just how deep hostility may have run between the U.S. and Syria. "This was a real cold war," says Andrew J. Tabler, former editor of Syria Today, an English-language magazine in Damascus. "Improving U.S.-Syrian relations could be a lot harder than we thought...