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...stretched himself as an actor and received Oscar nominations for riskier roles in Jerry Maguire and Magnolia. Cruise is famously professional and polite, on time and always prepared, Hollywood's eagle scout. His not-so-secret craving is for control, starting with himself but not ending there. For one crucial scene in Minority Report, Cruise was required to submerge himself in a bathtub, then emit a solitary air bubble from one nostril. "Don't worry if you can't do it," Spielberg told him. "I can do it with [special effects]." Cruise insisted on doing it himself. "I kept practicing...
When President Bush makes public this week his plan for the creation of a Palestinian state, the exact shape his proposal takes will be crucial to more than just the future of the Middle East peace process. It will also reveal the outcome of another bitter struggle--the one between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Administration hard-liners, led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney...
With 400,000 pages of documents collected by the Joint Intelligence Committee ready to be made public, new revelations are already tumbling out. U.S. counterterrorism officials told TIME that by January 2001, the CIA had briefed officials at the White House's Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) about a crucial January 2000 meeting of al-Qaeda agents in Kuala Lumpur--the first indication that the CSG knew about the meeting well before Sept. 11. (The officials would not specify whether the briefing took place in the last days of the Clinton Administration or the early days of Bush's term. White...
...surprise announcement created a surge of momentum behind his proposal, but it could quickly disintegrate. "Only the President has the power to 'crack heads,'" the centrist Democratic Leadership Council noted in its daily bulletin. "If he doesn't do so, then reorganization won't accomplish much, especially in the crucial short term...
...world. We could get over the soccer part eventually--after all, it's kind of like the soccer we make our suburban children play, only without the goal scoring. But the global part just isn't going to happen. When I hear that Tunisia is playing Belgium for the crucial Group H runner-up spot, all I want is a map. The only way Americans are going to learn another country's name is if it attacks...