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The whiz kid vs. the old boys

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The Central Intelligence Agency has always maintained strict security regulations. For this reason, Director John Deutch's placing classified files on an unclasssified comuter had led to an ongoing investigation.

Author: Powers, Thomas
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2000
Management, Computers, Safety and security measures, Digital computers, Investigations, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Deutch, John M.

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One of the boys: unconventional and irrepressible, the redhead was the last of a breed

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Dancer Gwen Verdon epitomized a sense of freedom usually enjoyed only by men. Many of her roles and dancing moves took advantage of her sense of freedom. Her influence on American dance is examined.

Author: Als, Hilton
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Obituary, Dancers, Verdon, Gwen

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Temporal vertigo: a last road trip through premodern, postmodern Afghanistan

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A humanitarian agency worker who returned to the US after a year in Afghanistan and Pakistan comments on Taliban rule, the desperate poverty of the region, and the scars of past wars everywhere.

Author: Sifton, John
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Afghanistan, Social aspects, Personal narratives, History, Cover Story, War and society, Society, Wars, Islamic fundamentalism, Americans abroad, Humanitarian aid, Taliban, Americans in Afghanistan

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