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...urgent task is to infiltrate terrorist groups. This is hard but not impossible. Israel, for example, has managed to set up a web of Palestinian collaborators. Last winter a would-be suicide bomber took refuge in a Palestinian house after his explosive vest failed to detonate on a bus. Unbeknown to him, the father of his host was an informer for the Israeli domestic intelligence service. The father contacted the police, and the man was arrested...
...score of his pledge ... his friend suggested lemonade, which was accepted. In preparing the lemonade, the friend pointed to the brandy-bottle, and said the lemonade would be more palatable if he were to pour in a little brandy; when his guest said, if he could do so 'unbeknown' to him, he would not object." Sherman grasped the point immediately. "Mr. Lincoln wanted [Jefferson] Davis to escape, 'unbeknown...
...report alcohol- or drug-related convictions until 1990, and the rule was not retroactive. America West discovered his record only after police took him off the plane. The 1998 charges were eventually dropped, but he was convicted of disorderly conduct in 2000 and got two years' probation--again unbeknown to America West...
...screen. One notable exception is 1999's Sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers), a feature-film by Akihiko Shiota. Two 17-year-olds, Takuya (Kenji Mizuhashi) and Satsuki (Tsugumi), start a conventional romance but Takuya's needs are anything but. First he tells Satsuki to treat him like a dog. Then unbeknown to her, he smells her socks, photographs her legs (how Japanese cinema loves voyeuristic kink) and wants to kiss her feet and suck her toes. She discovers his obsessions, and forces him to sit in a closet watching her having sex with another man. When finished, she pleads with Takuya...
...time to indulge in a little self-satisfaction. Unbeknown to McCain, his supporters passed out a song sheet with words written to the tune of the Elvis hit Are You Lonesome Tonight? The lyrics were a broadside aimed at Arizona's Republican Governor Jane Hull, who had not only backed Bush but also publicly embarrassed McCain by pointing to his famous temper. "Are you lonely tonight as you're losing this fight?" sang the chorus. McCain barely joined in, fearing he might appear to be gloating. "Are your eyes teary blue?/ Darling Gov, is it true?/ Tell me, Jane...