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...Aldrich Ames spy scandal, saving its hardest slam forCIA Director R. James Woolsey, who reprimanded 11 senior CIA officials last month, but fired no one. TheSenate Intelligence Committeesaid Woolsey's "mild" actions were "seriously inadequate and disproportionate to the problems." It also faulted former CIA directors William Casey, William Webster and Robert Gates -- agency chiefs during Ames'nine years of spyingfor Moscow -- for their role in an intelligence debacle which led to the executions of a dozen Soviet double agents and left the U.S. spy network in shambles. "I believe my decisions were fair and just," Woolsey said today.Post comment...
Doctors are television's perfect heroes. From Richard Boone in Medic through doctors Casey, Kildare and Welby to the bustling gang in St. Elsewhere, they have wielded their power like benevolent dictators. With a flick of the scalpel, they can make decisions of life and death, and with a consoling word reconcile people to either. They are privy to their patients' closest secrets, deepest fears, most traumatic life moments. Dressed in white, they watch over them like angels. And when they make their bedside pronouncements, they do it from above, like...
...events of the Odyssey into three brisk hours and still has room for his voluptuous metaphor making and severe truth telling ("What are men? Children who doubt"). After a slow start, in which stilted heroic attitudes virtually define Bad Regional Theater, Odysseus appears, in the burly, assured person of Casey Biggs, and the play takes off. Mythology can be fun when Circe is a sassy dominatrix, the Sirens are mermaids out of a Bette Midler show, and Helen of Troy is a peckish, past-her-prime star who puts on airs -- Bea Arthur trying to be Bea Lillie. All this...
Harvard officials must now examine the language of the bill and hope the cuts will be distributed over a wide base of fund recipients, Casey said...
...Casey said the other thing Harvard can do about the reductions is try to convince Congress of research's importance...