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...while already under government investigation, flew from Washington's Dulles International Airport to an unnamed foreign country, according to the affidavit. Security inspectors found two small computer "thumb" drives in his luggage. When he returned three weeks later, U.S. agents searched his luggage again and, according to the affidavit, did not find the drives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accused Spy Stewart Nozette | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...were still thriving, he said, the “literary” intellectualism of the Trilling-Sontag variety (definition: “a dinner party can become acrimonious over such issues as Freudian analysis”) was extinct, or at least highly endangered. Kristol personally decided to head to Washington, D.C., the nation’s go-to location for public policy. But he argued that, “if you want an animated discussion of ‘large ideas’ about God, human destiny, Western civilization, modern art, the future of democracy, etc., you are better served...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bright Lights, Big Pity | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...seasonal-flu strains is resistant to Tamiflu, a commonly used antiviral treatment - such a policy seems logical. But is it legal? Flu-vaccine requirements are being challenged by health-care workers who maintain that decisions about vaccination should be theirs and theirs alone. In the state of Washington, the State Nurses Association, which in general supports vaccinations, is suing a local health system over its decision to make the flu shot a condition of employment, while dozens of New Yorkers went to the state capital in September to protest the new immunization ultimatum. (See what you need to know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Health-Care Workers Be Forced to Get Flu Shots? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...economies never to have held an Olympics--is the first Latin country developed enough to give the region a second chance. "The IOC decision is an embrace of Brazil's practical way of doing things," says Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, referring to Lula's unique hybrid of market economics and progressive social policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Rio's Olympic Win | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...independent National Security Archive at George Washington University recently translated chronicles of the Soviet discussion, mostly from notes taken by Anatoly Chernyaev, Gorbachev's senior foreign policy aide at the time. While the U.S. insists it is not an occupying force as the Soviets were, both missions faced many of the same challenges. "We should honestly admit that our efforts over the last eight years have not led to the expected results," a senior military commander confided to Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov in an August 1987 letter. "Huge material resources and considerable casualties did not produce a positive end result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets in Afghanistan: Obama's Déjà Vu? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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