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...proposed reforms similar to key recommendations of the 9/11 commission. Among them: making the current position of Director of Central Intelligence into the national intelligence czar, with authority over a separate CIA director and all or most of the $40 billion annual intelligence budget. One government source said the document contains little sensitive national security information and that its secret status is largely cover for the White House to avoid releasing a potentially embarrassing report...
...over the weekend but will continue operating out of a privately-funded foundation were not given a copy of the Scowcroft report. But they were allowed to read it under tightly controlled conditions, according to Republican Chairman Tom Kean. And they have some familiarity with the making of the document; one 9/11 commissioner and a panel staffer helped write the report. Kean declined to give details about the Scowcroft paper but told TIME he was impressed by it, saying, ?I liked the Scowcroft report very much...
When the transcript of a June 22 closed hearing in the sexual-assault case of Kobe Bryant was inadvertently released, the press had the expected field day. In the document, defense expert Dr. Elizabeth Johnson presented evidence that suggested Bryant's accuser may have had sex with another man not long after her encounter with Bryant--raising doubts about whether it was Bryant who caused the former college student's vaginal trauma and lending credence to his assertion that the sex was consensual. Speculation flew that the prosecution's case was collapsing and that the charges would be dropped...
...Wagner Museum, in a house named Wahnfried (“Peace from Delusion”) because the Meister’s restlessness found peace here, only succeeds in annoying me. The exhibits neurotically proceed along corridors winding upstairs and down, then up and down again. Display cases document a so-called “Viennese fiasco” without providing any clear exposition. Much innuendo and few facts are offered about the composer’s mysterious relations with Nietzsche, Liszt and Bavarian King Ludwig...
...late 1990s, Florida farmers sent an undercover video crew to Mexico to document sanitary and pesticide violations and child labor. The expose became known on Capitol Hill as the "Mexican death tape." But today several activists have grown quieter, charging that grocery chains are retaliating by canceling orders. "The markup is so outrageous, they don't want anyone messing with it," says a tomato grower. Luis Rodriguez, a consultant for Florida Farmers Inc., an advocacy group, says he listened in on a conversation in which a Wal-Mart official told a supplier that he planned to stop buying from farmers...