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...public spy, even though his photograph was never published until his death. The infamous Soviet mole Kim Philby revealed his name in 1971 during a Moscow-London spy spat. Spedding later reorganized the post-cold war service, focusing on his specialty, the Middle East. In 1984 he reputedly helped thwart an Abu Nidal attack on Queen Elizabeth when she was on a visit to Jordan...
...testified that Roach stole the money because she is addicted to buying stuff, and an independent mental-health specialist agreed. Thus Kennelly decided that Roach suffers from a "diminished mental capacity," that her binge buying was an attempt to "self-medicate" her depression and that jail time would only thwart the therapy that has lately helped stem her compulsions...
...also needs to be said, while we are being metaphysical, that two-timing is an effort to thwart the fatal fact that you only go around once. It doesn't work, but it keeps you busy...
...think it's fair to speculate there may be issues related to how we handled ourselves." Indeed, following Boucher's invitation to speculate, it's not difficult to see what might have irritated America?s allies to the point of joining an unlikely coalition of friend and foe to thwart the U.S. in an international forum...
...Mozart’s most mature and varied music, as a piece of drama it doesn’t always attain the same sublimity. There is, for example, no explanation of why the evil Queen of the Night has at her disposal three virtuous wonder-boys who help Tamino thwart the Queen’s plans after leading him to Sarastro’s temple. Nor is it obvious why Sarastro, that paragon of priestly piety, employs as his prison warden an old lecher bent on ravishing Pamina...