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Hugger-mugger is part of life, especially under modern political conditions. For decades, it had its capital in the Kremlin and the inner councils of Beijing; now it gathers thickly but elusively in the alleys of Baghdad and the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Many outside the borders of the United States, and many within those borders, place its originating center in Washington, D.C.; there, as Robert Lowell wrote decades ago in his poem "July in Washington," "the stiff spokes of this wheel / touch the sore spots of the earth." John le Carre, the leading fictional dramatizer of the clandestine struggle between the capitalist West and the Communist bloc, maintains a ...

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