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...stay out of trouble. Tim was one of those masters; he recruited Larry into spying and "ran" him, in the parlance of the trade, for some 20 years, while a succession of KGB chiefs in London were fooled into believing that Larry was actually working for them. Despite his skill as a double agent, Tim's protaga retains a belief in his own innocence, a Byronic flair with women and a hunger for lost causes. "My sin," Tim reflects, "was to promote the cheat in him above the dreamer, which is why he sometimes hated me a little more than...
...meteoric: two tours in Vietnam, second in his class at the Army's Command and General Staff College. But Powell's finest hours were in the Pentagon. Serving as military aide to a series of top civilian officials, he impressed each one with his loyalty, intelligence and political skill. Lawrence Korb, an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, calls Powell "as astute a politician as I've met." After serving as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, Powell rejoined the Army in 1989. But within a year George Bush promoted him to become, at 52, the youngest ever...
...fairness, it must be acknowledged that cosmologists have had very little information to go on, at least until very recently. The distant galaxies that bear witness to the universe's origin, evolution and structure are excruciatingly faint, and it takes every bit of skill observers have to tease out their secrets. It hasn't been until the past decade, in fact, that astronomers have had powerful telescopes like the Hubble out in space and the Keck atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, ultrafast supercomputers and super-sensitive electronic light detectors to give them the data they hunger for. In a very...
Despite its innovative aspects, the production never seems gimmicky or contrived, nor does it obscure Shakespeare's theme of blind ambition vs. mere blindness. Henry V is an important addition to the repertoire of the A.R.T., it deftly showcases their skill and prominence
...Rowing on water requires much more skill," Ruckman said. "On the ergs it's pure power...