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...Harvard, Epps says he is joining the ranks of what he calls the "shadow cabinet" of former big-time players in the College administration who, upon retirement, play a more muted role at Harvard...
...careless can an intelligence chief be? JOHN DEUTCH, former CIA director, seems to have been very careless indeed. In 1995 and 1996 he shunned a secure CIA computer, opting to compose 74 documents containing highly classified information, including memos to the President and Cabinet members, on an unsecure Macintosh at his home. Worse, he used the same computer for personal e-mail, receiving a note from a former Russian citizen living in Western Europe. Deutch family members also surfed the Web on it; one visited porn sites...
President Abdurrahman Wahid may be a picture of physical frailty, but he fights smart - as former military leader General Wiranto discovered Sunday. Wiranto, who had defied Wahid's order to step down as minister for security, was summarily suspended from the cabinet Sunday, even though the president had indicated only a day earlier that the general could remain in office pending the outcome of an official investigation into his role in last year's East Timor violence. The standoff had fueled rumors of a coup against Wahid, who had asked for the resignation of Wiranto - the military leader who engineered...
...waning of their own authority may make the top brass more sympathetic to Wiranto's own plight, while the nationalist party of Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri has fiercely opposed Wahid's proposal to give Indonesia's various regions more autonomy as part of a federation. Megawati presided over the cabinet meeting attended by Wiranto Wednesday, and had traveled to some of Indonesia's trouble spots with the general over the weekend...
...have to get even more blind following an unprecedented 45-minute debate in the Knesset Wednesday over Israel's as-yet unacknowledged nuclear weapons program. The debate was called by a left-wing Arab-Israeli legislator, Issam Mahoul, who wants whatever nukes exist, if they exist, to be dismantled. Cabinet ministers accused Mahoul of aiding Israel's enemies, and refused to answer his questions or budge from their traditional policy of "constructive ambiguity" - neither confirming nor denying the Jewish state's nuclear capability...