Word: uncleaned
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...needs to be done to improve the CIA's internal procedures." CIA director John Deutch tried to remedy that by announcing a series of reforms, including promises to choose CIA station chiefs more carefully, to "scrub" paid informants more thoroughly and report accurately on human-rights abuses by the unclean, and to require better briefing of U.S. ambassadors. Deutch's efforts only partly mollified agency critics. Not for the first time, congressional debate raged over whether the agency's human "assets" in other countries aren't more like debits...
...artifacts on its pristine white walls. The place is small, but does not achieve maximum coziness because of the hospital-like sterility. Even the bathroom contributes to this atmosphere by selling exorbitantly priced $1.00 condoms. Ironically, the perceived sterility only goes so far. The dining experience is actually rather unclean by our ethnocentric Western standards; there are neither napkins nor silverware for the patrons, and with two of our guests affected with mysterious sniffles, your reviewers were somewhat uneasy about picking at a communal platter with pieces of injera--spongy, sour, pancake-like bread...
...feel anger and disgust. This is not tragedy. The word tragedy would give this business too much moral elevation. What has happened in Bosnia is just squalor and barbarism -- the filthy work of liars and cynics manipulating tribal prejudices, using atrocity propaganda and old blood feuds to accomplish the unclean political result of "ethnic cleansing." The displacement of a million innocent civilians, turned into refugees, is not a consequence of the war, but precisely the purpose of the war. It has worked...
...about the Holocaust? The Holocaust, of course, is known from the outset to be a satanic plot. For some reason -- a native individualism, maybe -- many Americans resist dark theories about J.F.K.'s death, and think those retailing them are peddling foreign, anarchist goods. Real Americans hate conspiracies as something unclean...
...shelved career, high office without power, a political glory all but lost in nonentity, and a galling kind of subservience. Good news: You are the second highest-ranking official in the land. Bad news: You are also the butler. Or the handyman. All you have is a faintly unclean hope of things to come...