Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wise guys call it "the magic box." It's the hottest item in the underworld high-technology arsenal--and the feds' worst nightmare. This cigarette pack-size gizmo threatens to send the wiretap the way of the FBI fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...
...very wise woman once told me that if you can identify one ideology and travel with it across battlefields which fight against it in the course of your life and still maintain that same belief even though it has been challenged to the very root, even though you oscillated here and there, then that belief is yours for life. Such an experience it has been for me at Harvard, and this personal growth to me is just as valuable as any social change that may have occurred in my time here as well...
...Jack Siedlicki is the kind of guy who I think will work well at Yale," said Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Athletic Director Raymond Gilbert. "He has proven that he can do the job coaching-wise, and he is also an excellent recruiter...
That was a wise move. By June the fund's private investigators determined that much of the money had been raised under the auspices of the Suma Ching Hai International Association, a Taiwan-based Buddhist sect that claims 100,000 followers in the U.S. The donations appear to have been generated at Ching Hai meetings in several U.S. cities, where followers were urged to contribute to the Clintons' defense fund. Some members gave directly; the Washington Post reported that others were told contributions would be made in their name. Trie's ties to the group are a mystery, but then...
...Cruise can be said to have a career problem, it is that people find it hard to believe that such an attractive star can act at all--let alone act brilliantly. But Cruise has always been wonderful at suggesting the vulnerability beneath American volubility, the wistfulness lurking below a wise guy's surface, the educability of egocentricity. But he's never had an opportunity to display those qualities with the subtlety Crowe provides him here...