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...Intelligence Identities Protection Act, they might find one in a cover-up. They could file perjury charges against someone for lying on an affidavit or giving false testimony. The burden of proof is not as high in such cases, nor are the penalties as severe. And it is a surer path for getting someone to pay for blowing a spy's cover. --By Daren Fonda. Reported by Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...point, we had what Bubba called a “cultural difference.” I had been instructing the tacklers to get their heads across the ballcarriers’ bodies, a technique used in football to make surer tackles and eliminate cutback lanes. This approach also helps get more of the tackler’s body in the runner’s path, increasing the odds of bringing him down...
...with them, but to admire them. Give them every opportunity of displaying their own qualifications, and when you have indulged their vanity, they will praise you in turn and prefer you above others... Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them than talking well ourselves...
Mazzoleni plans to have a mini-training camp after exams to sharpen any skills that might have dulled over the break, but two wins this weekend could be prove a surer step towards setting a positive tone for the rest of the season...
...Hajj, literally "setting out," is the world's largest, regularly scheduled pilgrimage. Like other religious treks, it offers grace, a surer shot at salvation, maybe a miraculous cure for an illness. But the Hajj is obligatory: it must be performed at least once by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it. (Borrowing money to come is prohibited, although many do.) Having performed the Hajj becomes a lifelong distinction celebrated with an honorific: I can now call myself Hajji Maseeh Rahman. And the Hajj is done en masse during one five-day period in the final month of the Islamic...