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...figure out why a series of operations had been blown. They suspected a high-level mole. Eventually their stealthy investigations led them to CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames in 1994. Though the backroom hunt was a closely held secret, the ever curious Hanssen might have figured it out from stray details. Even after Ames' arrest, the mole ferreting went on, leading to the 1996 arrest of CIA employee Harold Nicholson, then of FBI agent Earl Pitts. That July, Hanssen started running his own name, his address and keywords such as dead drop and Foxstone through the FBI's automated database, which...
...tightly knit Wasp community of Midland, Texas, some unique social condition that encouraged the cultivation of nicknames, because everyone had one. From his father George ("Poppy") Bush, the war hero with one of those curiously effeminate preppie nicknames (like "Bunny" and "Pinkie"), to Barbara ("Bar") Bush (no one dared stray farther from the source name), to brother John Ellis ("Jeb") Bush's acronym of a name, to family friends "Spider" and "Wemus" and countless others, in Bushworld everyone had to have a nickname, and if you didn't, they'd give...
...Because I got hit by a stray snowball today and fell down and I deserve a lot of sympathy...
...Buck says Brazilian music has had an influence on him, but not an overt one. "If you listen to the new record, things pop through. We stray from time to time from 4/4 rock 'n' roll and try some different rhythms.... You know, as much as I'm a little hesitant with the notion of 'One World' I think the Internet and all the connectiveness it implies is allowing people to hear music that they never would have heard before." Buck goes on to talk about growing up in Roswell, Georgia, where, he says, driving into Athens, Georgia, to catch...
From that stray comment by the pathetic prisoner, Jones concocted a story of a night on the town gone wrong and the resultant misery caused. It's one of those tracks that, because of a certain atmosphere and sadness, stands out from the rest of an album - think "Home Again" on Carol King's "Tapestry," or "Broadway" on Alison Krauss's "Now That I've Found...