Sublime

Se refugió en Colombia y luego pasó a Honduras, donde se dedicó en cuerpo y alma a conspirar contra el gobierno de Jacobo Árbenz. Allí fundó el llamado Movimiento de Liberación Nacional e hizo el triple pacto con el general Ydígoras Fuentes y un civil con muchos sesos, el doctor Córdova Cerna, antiguo abogado de la Frutera y colaborador y ministro

He often spoke of “dear old Adolf” and his SS, who knew what to do with thugs who picked on artists. America was the place, he said, “where honest men were all robbed and bludgeoned by scoundrels.”

Samson Syndrome. It was the spy’s equivalent of the mid-life crisis. The most famous case was the MI5 officer Michael Bettaney who was convicted of spying for the KGB in the eighties. The cause? Not buying a train ticket. Because he was caught fare-dodging, Bettaney knew he would fail his next security review; failing the review would lead to his d

The largest employer in Memphis today is FedEx. It was founded by Frederick Smith in 1973. Smith, who was from nearby Marks, Tennessee, decided Memphis was an ideal location. It is near the center of the country but, unlike the Midwest, doesn’t frequently suffer inclement weather. He came from a business family—his father had been one of the founde

Oil, too, had entered the picture once again. On October 17, in the midst of the war, Arab countries imposed an oil embargo as punishment of the United States and other countries that had supported Israel. The embargo threw the American and other Western economies into chaos, placing Israel squarely in the crosshairs of international intrigue once

Still, a certain uneasiness spread among his students. Colleagues had begun to question his powers of reason. Admirers were saddened to see him stumble over facts, contradict himself, or…

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