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"The CIA was editing Wikipedia; one CIA entry concerned lyrics in a song from the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." A CIA spokesperson responding to queries about the edits stated, "I cannot confirm that the traffic you cite came from agency computers. I'd like in any case to underscore a far larger and more significant point that no one should doubt or forget: The CIA has a vital mission in protecting the United States, and the focus of this agency is there, on that decisive work."

-- From Harper's Weekly, 21 Aug., 2007

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Unrelated - yesterday was the Diva's last day at the preschool where she has been for the last 3.8 years. I didn't expect either of us to cry as much as we did. It was pretty clear when I showed up for the "blast of to kindergarten" festivities that she'd had a weepy day. Truth be told, her weepy day started the night before, when she woke up at 3 a.m. in tears because she didn't want to leave Bugbee.

And, yesterday, when she started, I started, too. Then her teachers -- who are wonderful -- read some poems and sang some songs. Maddy and I went into the hall to weep like infants, especially when we started to flip through her binder of 3.8 years of stories and pictures. Lordy. I'm welling up just thinking about it.

I can see where she gets her fear of transitions, you know? Who knew it would be this hard?

She's still psyched about kindergarten, by the way. Just doesn't want to leave the old place. I can completely understand -- even though I keep pointing out that we'll be back, if only to pick up the brother-man. Because, tempting as it might be some days, we can't just leave him there.