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Today’s Spies Aren’t What They Used to Be

(Translations from the original Russian supplied by Mr. Georgio of Rome. When reading important state documents translated in confidentiality in Rome, think of Mr. Georgio.) Two senior bureaucrats were waiting…
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Lawn Chair Killer Free

The Supreme Court of Canada, in a four to one ruling, today overturned a Supreme Court of Ontario ruling made last December convicting a Wawa man of first degree murder.…
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Social Imperatives

"Go! Go! Go!" a little voice beckoned in my ear. I was unused to the uninvited beckoning of little voices in my ear. "Where? Where? Where?" I asked. There was…
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Leave It To Deaver

Somewhere deep within the guts of a squat, ugly, five-sided building in Washington, DC, a unique public relations war has been raging for the past five years. Although not generally…
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The Hard Sell Approach

I just got an agent. While literary agents often insist that writers act in ways that are normally anathema to them (meeting deadlines, working during the day, wearing a tie…
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The Acts of Reasonable People

George Wilson was a reasonable man, perhaps the most reasonable of all the men in the small town of Jonas Falls. Thus, when he came before the Town Council asking…
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Mid-death Crisis

The Bomb dropped by recently for a little coffee and social intercourse. I was flattered; although I had grown up with The Bomb, we didn't hang out at the same…
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Life as Cookie Box

I have recently discovered that life is a lot like a box of chocolate chip cookies. Of course, cookies rarely come in tin boxes any more; they can more often…
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A Life Apart

I've never attended a hot air balloon festival. Just what goes on at a hot air balloon festival that I'm not supposed to know about? Can flying through the air…
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Masters of the Air Guitar, Volume One

ANNOUNCER: We will return you to your regularly scheduled column after these brief announcements. Marlon Brando, wearing only a pair of shorts and sunglasses, sits beside a pool in a…