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...rest of the intelligence community. The largest agencies, the NSA, the FBI and the CIA, enjoy tremendous autonomy and are viciously territorial. For these agencies to share information with each other and the White House and to take orders from the President, Ridge will have to scratch and claw every inch of the way. Unless the Office of Homeland Security is given some power over the budgets of those agencies, they’re unlikely to respond...
...Osama bin Laden is being waged not just with guns but also with butter. To understand the timing and intent of the bombardment, a senior Pentagon official says, look at the back side of a dollar bill. The eagle clutches an olive branch in its right claw and arrows in its left. Food aid and firepower, the official says, are happening together because "We want to send two images to the world at once...
...moving is Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Bust of a Woman, a partial cast of her Emancipation that now resides in Harriet Tubman Square. A photograph of the entire statue—showing young slaves newly released from the terror of a young bird’s claw, representing slavery—accompanies the Bust. Fuller perfectly captures a combined look of hope, fear and pride on the Bust’s face...
...hundreds or thousands of real people--were the rage at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week. Few were as ambitious as World War II Online: Blitzkrieg from Playnet. Starting this fall, you can pay $9.99 a month to re-enact the great battles and try to claw your way up the ranks to Supreme Commander...
...requires the Doolittle raid on Japan, four months later, to resolve this romantic conundrum by knocking a corner off the triangle. It requires a lot of patience for an audience to sit through the dithering. They're nice kids and all that, but they don't exactly claw madly at one another. It's as if they know that someday they're going to be part of "the Greatest Generation" and don't want to offend Tom Brokaw. Besides, megahistory and personal history never integrate here...