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...explode a dirty bomb and spread radiation throughout an American city? He was sent by a couple of captured al-Qaeda big shots, Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, whom we interrogated using techniques that Senators have ostentatiously decried and that sparked the McCain amendment. You connect the dots. And then there were the two attacks thwarted by the NSA eavesdropping: a plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge and a plot to bomb pubs and train stations in Britain. Historians will have to tell you about the other plots that were stopped. But the former NSA director already said...
What would he testify about? Causey was with Lay and Skilling at meetings in which Enron's mounting debt and losses were discussed. He can also connect the dots for the jury, explaining Fastow's complex hidden deals...
...Bluetooth connectivity can help you in other ways, too. If you don't have Wi-Fi access, but have a Bluetooth phone with a good data plan, you can easily connect the 770 to the Web through the phone. Right now, the 770 doesn't have any built-in telephony, but Nokia says that they will soon make it compatible with some voice-over IP services. When that's fully operational (and it could be any day now), a Bluetooth headset would come in handy...
...less than half the price of the Bose, Sony offers an elegant pair of headphones, with glossy piano-black "cans" to cover your ears, and a detachable wire to connect to your source. You only need a single AAA battery to power it up, and it will last up to 30 hours. Since noise-cancellation uses microphones to listen to the environment, there's also a "Monitor" button that sends through everything outside, so you don't have to take off your headphones to tell the flight attendant what kind of beverage you want...
...wrote of the temptation to "think that bargaining a little with evil, reserving some freedom against God, is good, perhaps even necessary. But if we look at the world, it is not so. Evil always poisons." His predecessor's poetic touch made the world take notice. Benedict will connect by the power of his prose. But for all his learning and his sense of mission, the great surprise of Benedict's papacy so far - at least to those who didn't personally know him - has been a quiet humanity. At the end of a general audience in August, the Pope...