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...Elections in the Philippines have rarely been honest and peaceful. You have to wonder about the motives of politicians who are willing to spend millions of pesos to win a government post that provides only a small salary. Most Philippine politicians hide their personal goals behind a veneer of public service. The Philippine electorate cannot be entirely blamed for the resulting corruption, because voters often don't have very good candidates to choose from. Leo A. Barrosa Makati City, the Philippines...
With tradecraft like that, it is little wonder the CIA "never once even tried to infiltrate" al-Qaeda, according to Bamford. He says agents working at the CIA's vaunted Alec station, the shop inside the agency responsible for tracking and killing Osama bin Laden, seemed more interested in flying to Afghanistan and Paris to meet with various Afghan warlords who promised to provide details of bin Laden's whereabouts in exchange for bags full of cash. Bamford asserts that the CIA's Afghan assets never came through with very much on the Saudi terrorist, but the CIA kept them...
...Diane Keaton in motion. Her and the show's peak moment comes when she reluctantly teaches the conga to six randy sailors from the Brazilian Navy. The number, which in seven or eight minutes expands into barely controlled musical and sexual anarchy, is so irresistibly infectious, it's a wonder the audience doesn't form a conga line on 45th Street at intermission...
...wonder now if that’s just the story that I concocted in my head to justify my new form of procrastination. Or if I was merely filling in a hole in my résumé left by my concentration. Truthfully, I found the change of pace refreshing, and the paper was a logical step because my brother had chaired the sports board three years prior. But then I wondered if I was merely playing the role of the little sister, who follows in her brother’s rather large footsteps...
...this skepticism surrounding the integrity of the process means that many faculty wonder from where the report’s impetus stems...