Pity ('tis true) revolves their leapful springs, Smil'd thanks, attoning pray'rs, embracing clings, Sallies of guileless joy, gay gleams offense, Soft stroking flatt'ries — active impotence ;

Nile Delta

An early CIA decision was to bring war surplus in Europe to the United States, rather than let it fall into the hands of left-wing movements. Some of the guns would also, it was reasoned, be useful as sterile weapons (foreign-made and untraceable to the United States) to be provided secretly to foreign friends.

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?