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secret agent — the prisoners still had to explain why they had hidden 15 kg of the military explosive RDX under bushes on a Mombasa golf course. Created to advance Iran’s interests clandestinely overseas, the Quds Force has lately provided mostly embarrassment, stumbling in Azer...

In the early years of the Iranian Revolution, an obscure cleric named Ayatollah Gilani became a sensation on state television by contemplating bizarre hypotheticals at the intersection of Islamic law and sexuality. One of his most outlandish scenarios -- still mocked by Iranians...

between 1985 and 2004 in the number of Americans who reported no one with whom to discuss important matters.'© We are a meaning-making species, and relationships that offer security, comfort, trust, and pleasure, even if interactions are relatively infrequent, are much more effec...

…. A judge in Stockholm ordered his detention on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion. He denied the charges but was arrested in London on a European arrest warrant. In December, he was released on a $312,700 bail deposit (supplied by his supporters) and co...

 25 August, 2011 Article 1. Scientific American Is Muammar Qadhafi Clinically Psychotic? John Matson Article 2. The Financial Times Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Anne-Marie Slaughter Article 3. Foreign Policy Sinai’s Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed...

my memory for obscure facts and the “parlor tricks” I played with it got me an interview with the producers of a television game show called “The $64

…ld her that shots had been fired in Dallas. We turned on a small television set that had been in my cubicle ever since the World Series a couple of months earlier. Nothing was yet on the news. A few minutes later everyone in the world knew that President Kennedy had been shot....

the comedian George Carlin listed the seven words that could never be uttered on radio or television. The list included such innocent words as “piss” and “tits.” (Use your imagination for the other 5!)

a statement generally offensive to the religious sensitivities of typical jurors. More inflammatory was a statement by Swami comparing women to dogs and condoning lightly slapping one's wife for disciplinary reasons.”

even though he himself was accused of using his religion to defraud co-religionists. The case involved television evangelist Jim Bakker

…hose forensic and sometimes aggressive interviews with figures in authority inspire love and loathing in equal measure. The Observer’s television critic once wrote that if he ever found himself sitting next to Humphrys at a dinner party he would probably drive a fork through his...

…de- for-television Independence Day production starring America’s military weaponry, President Trump on Thursday used the Lincoln... HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029867

to Robert DeNiro. We even applauded Bob putting his handprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. The conversations continued about how our government put the cabasch on "Zero Dark Thirty" with their arrogant denial of enhanced interrogation. Even MPAA President Ch...

BiBICI BBC World News Xi Jinping and the New Politburo Standing Committee Robert Lawrence Kuhn October 25, 2017 HOST: We're going to put a question to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who’s a long-time advisor to the Chinese government. Robert, great to see you again. You were with us a...

…Tel Aviv in July 1967, you would have sensed a new spirit of confidence, not cockiness exactly, but a sort of spring in the collective step. This was not just due to the Six-Day War. It was because the city, if not yet the rest of the country, had shed the economic austerity of I...