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...crazy enough to go cold turkey, say U.S. intelligence officials. The FBI, which is investigating the Mega case, has grumbled privately that Israeli espionage agents routinely prowl California's Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 corridor for high-tech secrets. "The Israelis were bumping into very nearly every one of our friends and allies doing the same thing," says a former FBI counterintelligence agent. In a report last year to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the CIA identified Israel as one of six foreign countries with "a government-directed or -orchestrated clandestine effort to collect U.S. economic secrets." Senior intelligence...
...Truell backtracks the French story, relying for information on a disaffected CIA agent he knew in Paris. There seems to be a lot of disaffection at the CIA, a sclerotic bureaucracy, as the author tells it, lacking in clear purpose and shaken by its own incompetence. Truell's newspaper is tottering as well; its traditions, which date from a time when a newspaper could be the soul of a city, are far more solid than its finances. Good reporters are quitting. The publisher, a decent fellow in a shameful squeeze, is talking with secretive offshore moneymen...
...involved in critiquing certain controlling ideas that have been the ways of forming objects of study. For example, the work I've done on Jackson Pollock has been involved in trying to show that to continue to think of Pollock as a biographically contained subject who is a volitional agent is a benighted idea. For me, the only way to think about Pollock is through the sort of force field that was warring over his interpretation. That's an example of a sort of "death of the author" theory, and that's not a "paranoid scenario...
...thrice-divorced bachelor hobnobs with the President (Bill Clinton is unlikely to turn down his calls since Ellison was one of his top individual donors in last year's election) and is friends with Jack Kemp, who once sat on his board of directors. Jeff Berg, the Hollywood power agent who represents clients like Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson, is a buddy. Michael Milken, the reclusive financier, is an intimate adviser. Ellison, friends will remind you, is the richest man in California...
...what a tangled web they weave. Last week Ticketmaster sued Microsoft Corp., charging the software titan with "electronic piracy" for offering an Internet link to the ticket agent's Website without permission. The suit rocks the very foundation of the Internet: the unhindered cross-linking of related sites. Microsoft launched the first of a series of local Internet guides to the arts, Seattle Sidewalk, with a Ticketmaster link that allowed customers to buy event tickets via computer, bypassing Ticketmaster's home page. Sales soared, but Ticketmaster was unappreciative. Microsoft ought to add an irony link; it was the Seattle band...