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...rigorous as going to an opening-night mixer at a Las Vegas convention: American agents overseas sometimes competed with one another to see who could collect the most business cards at official receptions in foreign capitals. Then they would return to their embassy to determine the night's winner. Each card, the agents told themselves, represented a potential spy for the U.S. In fact, the agent said, "none of these people had anything useful ... It was just numbers. It's all quantity...
...election in August; Euro-skeptic parties currently lead in opinion polls. Courting the E.U. TURKEY The appeals court in Ankara freed four former Kurdish M.P.s, jailed for 15 years in 1994 on charges of collaborating with separatist rebels. Among the four - who face retrial in July - was Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize. Brussels had warned Turkey that the M.P.'s detention jeopardized its chances of joining the E.U., whose leaders will decide in December whether to open accession negotiations with Ankara . Ultimately, an O.K. IRAQ The Kurdish parliament in northern Iraq endorsed the U.N. resolution...
...Outside of Broadway, these performers aren't household names. Menzel, the winner, played a bridesmaid in the indie movie "Kissing Jessica Stein." Murphy has some minor currency for Trekkies as Captain Picard's beloved Ba'ku babe in "Star Trek: Insurrection" or, for TV cultists, as Stanley Tucci's scheming wife on the first season of "Murder One." Pinkins' only non-Tony nomination was for Best Supporting Actress in a soap opera ("All My Children" in the early 90s). Chenoweth and D'Abruzzo have been seen, fleetingly, on "Sesame Street" - the first as Ms. Noodle, the second as a puppeteer...
...can’t be the winner, the next best thing is the role of the spoiler, and we’re embracing it,” Tubridy said...
...addition to taking the top-team honors, Harvard boasted the individual winner as well, as captain Merry Chiampa fired the lowest score of the tournament—a final-round 73, which included Chiampa’s first career hole-in-one—to win the last tournament of her collegiate career...