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...minor functionaries who spend years in decidedly unglamorous jobs in which they are privy to information more valued than their self-esteem. Last week, in separate cases, three of those faceless employees were charged with peddling American secrets to foreign agents. The harvest was apparently random; the only thread was that all were, in the words of one former intelligence official, "tawdry little people who sell their souls for a few thousand bucks." But their apprehension brought to ten the number of spy arrests this year--a number that seems to be growing--and heightened worries about the ability...
Comparisons may be moot, especially among three boats that have had thoroughly dominant seasons. One thread, however, weaves these champion crews together: Holzapfel and Howard have rowed in each one, and they’ve never crossed the line in second place...
...which has become a preoccupation of the U.S. Congress as well. As the lines are drawn, constructive moves would certainly include heightened enforcement of legal rights by governments. But the legal system that grew up around the old paradigm, pre-IT and premodern-day China, is too thin a thread on which to hang an international trading system. The commercial community must adjust to the new reality...
...entrances, he found the first room contained the remains of a sacrificed horse. The grave itself is in the third chamber, carved out of a single block of limestone weighing more than 60 tons. Inside was a ritual deathbed, a resting place for the spirit, covered in gold thread. But no bones: the body was most likely burned or buried. Kitov believes the tomb, which was built around 150 years later than the one that contained the mask, belonged to King Seuthes III, who ruled in the late 4th century B.C. and fought Alexander the Great's predecessors. The first...
...with 36 replies as of two weeks ago—the thread has since been taken offline—the electronic war of words on “how not to be an asshole” was one of the more popular discussions...