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...scout targets. With headquarters at Fort Belvoir, Va., the unit is so secretive, it changes its cover name every six months. Delta Force has a platoon of about 100 intelligence operatives trained to sneak into a foreign country and radio back last-minute intelligence before the force's commandos swoop in for an attack...
...increasingly confusing spectacle. First there were those shiny gold CD-ROMs and reams and reams of documentation in Baghdad last Saturday breathlessly followed from airport to airport by 24-hour news TV crews before arriving in New York - where they were promptly snatched in a late-night swoop on UN headquarters by U.S. officials empowered by a last-minute round of diplomatic arm-twisting. Washington had managed to persuade the Permanent Five members of the Security Council (Britain, France, Russia, China and the U.S.) to agree that they should all have privileged access to Iraq's declaration before the remaining...
Fact is, Dartmouth should. And Harvard should swoop...
...easy for the Church, with the political power that it wields in Los Reyes, to conquer both the village news and Amaro’s personal integrity in one brutal swoop. Its power can deflect responsibility and blame from its own stainless purity, to channel it into those less financially and politically equipped, and to find the innocent guilty. The only person who has any respect for truth and justice is, ironically, a journalist: Amelia’s ex-boyfriend, son of a liberal “heretic,” who exposes the sins of the fathers...
Councillors and school committee members alike attacked the plan—both for not going far enough in addressing inequity in the school system and for going too far and making radical changes in one fell swoop...