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...Aldrich Ames spy scandal, saving its hardest slam forCIA Director R. James Woolsey, who reprimanded 11 senior CIA officials last month, but fired no one. TheSenate Intelligence Committeesaid Woolsey's "mild" actions were "seriously inadequate and disproportionate to the problems." It also faulted former CIA directors William Casey, William Webster and Robert Gates -- agency chiefs during Ames'nine years of spyingfor Moscow -- for their role in an intelligence debacle which led to the executions of a dozen Soviet double agents and left the U.S. spy network in shambles. "I believe my decisions were fair and just," Woolsey said today.Post comment...
Pornography, by definition, is "the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement" (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary). Possibly a picture of a man or a woman using the dildo, with bad lighting and lame composition, would be considered pornography. But are the dildos themselves pornography? Hardly. The photograph of the penis is at least a Photograph, but it's just a penis...
Irony, thy name is Webster...
What kind of cockamamie lingo is slang anyway? Samuel Johnson railed against it, complaining about the corrupting influence on the English language of what in his day was called cant. Daniel Defoe hated it. Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary, defined slang as "low, vulgar, unmeaning." And in all the years since, legions of teachers have tried to eradicate...
...Webster Hubbell resigned as Associate Attorney General to focus on resolving allegations of client overbilling and expense abuse -- charges that were leveled by his erstwhile partners at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm (former workplace of Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Administration figures). The exit was another painful development for the Clintons, particularly the First Lady, many of whose imports into the Administration have run into trouble...