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...Saturdays, running from basketball games to other activities from dawn until dusk. "It's insane, isn't it?" he says. But despite Ford's light touch, there is a sense of destiny in the air these days at his company. "This is a great American story, and the last chapter has not yet been written," says Steven Hamp, Ford's brother-in-law and chief of staff. "The outcome matters not just to our company but to our country. It's time to get inspired, strap on our guns and kick some butt...
...course’s efforts to look out for students with less science background, but says the course lacks focus at times. “Especially at the beginning of the course, we would have readings from the beginning of the book, and then for the next day, from...chapter 27. There isn’t a fluidity throughout the course,” Vargas says.But Vargas adds that the course is appealing because the professors explain the material’s applications.“I think that the material is interesting just because they apply it to everyday...
...DANIEL KURTZER Former U.S. ambassador to Israel: Ariel Sharon was writing the last and most important chapter of his legacy when he was struck down. My conversations with Sharon last September, as I departed my ambassadorial post in Israel, convinced me that the historic disengagement from Gaza was not his last peace step. I believe he was intent on redefining Israel's eastern border, which would require dismantling many additional settlements in the West Bank. Immediate peace moves by Israel are highly unlikely. The new Israeli leadership will need time to consolidate its power at home and build up credibility...
State of War doesn't follow a clear narrative arc. The action kick-starts midway through the first chapter, in March 2002: days after the arrest of Abu Zubaydah, at the time the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative in U.S. custody, Bush summoned CIA director George Tenet to the White House to ask what intelligence Abu Zubaydah had provided his captors. According to Risen's source, Tenet told Bush that Abu Zubaydah, badly wounded during his capture, was too groggy from painkillers to talk coherently. In response, Bush asked, "Who authorized putting him on pain medication?" Risen makes the leap...
Risen's book provides fresh details about how agency officials ignored warnings from their sources in Iraq about WMD and the potency of the insurgency after the U.S. invasion. Risen devotes a chapter to Sawsan Alhaddad, an Iraqi American recruited by the CIA as part of a "Hail Mary" prewar effort to gain intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons program by tapping the relatives of Iraqi scientists. Alhaddad was one of at least 30 Iraqi expatriates who risked their lives to travel to Iraq to ask their relatives about Saddam's arsenal. According to Risen, all of them reported that...