Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fuzzy Tickle Me Newtie. He seemed to go out of his way to lower his profile and not give offense. For weeks the public explanation for Gingrich's disappearance was that he was strategizing about the budget; yet when asked about his plans at the January G.O.P. retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia, Gingrich offered vague options instead of a course of action...
...temptation to know what might have been. Or to produce an Einstein, a Dr. King, for every generation. Or to raise a Jefferson in a clearing, a cross between Jurassic Park and Williamsburg, an artificial environment re-creating 18th century Virginia. Create, nurture and wait. Then bring him out one day, fully grown, to answer the question of the ages: What would Jefferson do today...
...weeks. The first of them had been a routine examination, the kind given every few years to agency employees. Since coming on board in 1980, Nicholson had been quietly but smoothly rising through the agency ranks. Now he was an instructor at Camp Peary, the CIA training facility near Williamsburg, Virginia, teaching new spies what older ones know. For instance, what to do when the other side...
...secret school for spies, known in agency circles as "the Farm." Students, called career trainees, take a year-long, $150,000-per-recruit program that prepares them to work in the agency's clandestine service. Located on 9,000 acres of barbed-wire-encircled woods outside Williamsburg, Virginia, the Farm looks like a community college, with brick buildings, dorms, a cafeteria and a gym laid out on a bucolic campus. But it also has such uncollegiate features as a mock prison where trainees get to experience solitary confinement, a pistol range where they learn to use firearms, and a private...
...leaves a sister-in-law, Anna Areeda of Birmingham, Michigan; two nieces, Michelle Areeda of Beverly Hills, Michigan and Marianne Taylor of Williamsburg, Virginia; and a nephew, Joseph Areeda of Los Angeles...