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...Suskind writes that CIA officials threatened to harm 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's kids, ages seven and nine, if he didn't cooperate with his interrogators in Thailand. "So fine," Khalid Sheikh Mohammed responded to the threat, according to one of Susskind's sources. "They'll join Allah in a better place...
RELINQUISHING. Bill Gates, 50, Microsoft chairman and co-founder; his day-to-day responsibilities running the software giant, as of July 2008; in Redmond, Washington. The move will leave executives Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie, whom Gates named to succeed him as chief software architect, to face challenges from competitors such as Google that provide user-friendly software over the Internet. Gates, a 2005 TIME Person of the Year, said he plans to focus more on philanthropic work...
...countercultural works, the Tokyo bookshop is a repository for treasures that will make beatnik bibliophiles weep with happiness. Here's a copy of Daniel Seymour's cult 1971 photography book, A Loud Song; there's a surviving Organic Design in Home Furnishings, the exquisitely rare catalog that U.S architect Eliot F. Noyes wrote to accompany the highly influential 1941 New York exhibition of the same name. Filling shelf space between hallowed titles like these are works from William Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan, radical hippy activist Jerry Rubin and many more (it's an inventory that betrays the impeccable taste of literary...
...piety extends to the boss' pay. Though the business house carries his name, Ratan Tata merely draws a salary from Tata Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect in the U.S., he is famously private. He lives with his two German shepherds, Tito and Tango, in the same second-floor apartment in Bombay that he has kept for 20 years. He is one floor below his stepmother, and neighbors say they have never known him to throw...
While in legal limbo, Rove, President Bush's senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, had remained a puckish but lower-profile warrior. But he marked his victory by telling Republicans in Manchester that Democrats favor "cutting and running" from Iraq--bold words to show that "the Architect," as Bush has called him, is back to battle unencumbered at a time when the White House needs his strategic instincts more than ever. Bush said he "took a sigh of relief" at Fitzgerald's decision and declared, "I trust Karl Rove." White House chief of staff Josh Bolten endorses Rove...