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Dahwey Chu, a spokesman for the Asian-American personnel at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, commented, "Today it would take a brave lab administrator to hire someone with a Chinese name."
According to my sources at the time, Morris was desperately pushing for a budget deal and making the kind of hilariously precise electoral promises for which he was legendary: If he compromised with Gingrich, Clinton would win by a 14-point margin, take back Congress, and so forth.
It also raises the question of what to do with people who can't take the drug because of the side effects.
You can take a cruise along the bay — boat trips leave from Harbor Drive, just south of the Maritime Museum — out past the man-made Harbor and Shelter Islands and around the tip of the Coronado peninsula (occupied by a US Naval Air Station — the film Top Gun was set nearby in northern San Diego) to Point Loma out on the Pacific coast.
The FISA Court's concern with FBI sloppiness in its FISA applications also began to take a toll: the court began designating itself as the gatekeeper for the sharing of intelligence information; the FBI was required to separately designate criminal and intelligence agents; and the court banned one supervisory FBI agent from appearing before it.