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Again, even if we don't buy Lane's conclusion about CIA complicity in the Kennedy assassination, 20 years of investigations have shown that the CIA was no stranger to complicity in assassinations. We know how the best and brightest blue bloods bonded with the bloodiest and dirtiest Mafia hit men in plots to kill Castro. We know the freak-show side of the agency that used damaging mind-control drugs on unsuspecting citizens; we know that the agency's own top counterspy, James Angleton, paralyzed the place with his paranoid suspicions that KGB moles and false defectors had penetrated...
Granted, years from now when archaeologists dig up my bones, they'll find these two blobs of unidentifiable substances clinging to the back of my rib cage or sitting on my pelvis or somewhere else. However, I no longer have to feel like a Twinkieless stranger in my own land. I have had Zoinks! and nothing will stand...
...Robert Maxwell case was stranger than most tabloid tales. The Czechoslovak-born press baron had created an empire financed largely through illusion, yet his holdings included the London Daily Mirror, New York City's Daily News and Macmillan, the U.S. book publisher. In assembling his web of 400 companies, Maxwell piled up debts, apparently without unduly alarming the dozens of banks and other lenders that let him borrow a sum now estimated at $7 billion...
...stranger to the bar scene of his own era, the Bard of Brooklyn would love the crowd at Chicago's Green Mill Lounge. Every Sunday night it's standing room only in this gritty neighborhood tavern. The audience is there for the weekly "slam," a literary version of The Gong Show at which amateur poets compete for small cash prizes and the much richer reward of having their work heard by an enthusiastic public. The poetic abilities of many contestants may be open to debate, but the audience is always in top form. On a typical evening a rambling poem...
...deal," Aronberg said. "She was very eager. She wanted to do it very badly. I'm sure she'll do a great job. She's no stranger to the campus press, right...