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...Administration to implement democratic reform. Mubarak, 78, has been in power for 25 years, and his anemic response to these crises is a worrying sign. "The regime is tending toward immobility," says Hugh Roberts, a Cairo-based director of the International Crisis Group. "Old repressive reflexes are in full swing, which suggests that the regime is rather nervous and fresh out of ideas." An aide recently hinted Mubarak would consider stepping down if a suitable successor could be found. In the meantime, for Egyptians caught between terrorist violence and government repression, there's little cause for cheer...
...heroes, if there are any at all, sit behind gray desks in Moscow; Langley, Va.; and London. There they must sift through tons of material provided by hundreds of different sources before they can, with luck, piece together a picture of, say, the locking mechanism on a swing-wing fighter ... It is work that occupies tens of thousands of mathematicians and cryptographers, clerks and military analysts, often with the most trivial-seeming tasks. Yet it is work that no major nation feels it can afford to halt ... In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold...
...fellow freshman Hampton Foushee. Frates, a triple short of the cycle on the afternoon, took Foushee deep to right in the sixth, sending one over the 380-foot sign in right field into the waiting glove of senior Matt Brunnig in the bullpen. “These guys swing it pretty good,” Walsh said of the BC order. “I didn’t know whether the 3-guy was a 9-guy or the 9-guy was a 4-hole. Top to bottom, pretty good lineup.” Brunnig, who shuttled...
...retiring as early as this spring. She had privately expressed grave doubts about how the CIA and the Bush Administration handled Iraq and terrorism. In 2004 she gave $2,000 to the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry as well as $5,000 to the Democratic Party in the swing state of Ohio...
...match for Madick, who preserved Harvard’s perfect record against Snyder. Madick and Snyder both “move[d] the ball well,” Allard said, adding, “They don’t give you a lot of great pitches to swing at, but they hit the zone and they’re very tough to beat.” Madick pitched a complete game and recorded her second shutout of the season. She allowed only four hits and four walks and struck out 11 on the way to her seventh...