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...indicated that Scowcroft, who chairs the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, said that decision was up to Bush. Roberts hopes to call Scowcroft to appear before the committee, at least in closed session, an official said. Also during last week?s Senate hearings on intelligence reform, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - who had strenuously opposed Scowcroft?s recommendations, which would strip key intelligence agencies and their multi-billion dollar budgets out of the Pentagon - acknowledged when pressed by Senator Edward Kennedy that he?d been briefed on the Scowcroft report and could think of no reason why it remains classified...
...years later, Orlean’s nonfiction work was chosen as the basis of a film scripted by offbeat indie writer Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald Kaufman, who may or may not exist. But when she saw the script to the film, titled Adaptation, her reaction was not surprise but something closer to horror, Orlean said...
...hour-long question and answer session which followed the screening, Orlean expressed her admiration for the shadowy Donald Kaufman, instantly naming him as the one person, dead or alive, with whom she would choose to dine given the chance...
...request [director] Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman made was to sort of pass on the question [of Donald’s reality],” she said. “I can say that I’ve never met Donald Kaufman, but he would have been dead anyway...
...YOUR BOOK, YOU ABSOLVE YOURSELF, PRESIDENT BUSH AND DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD OF INADEQUATE POSTWAR PLANNING. SO WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? It's possible to underestimate the difficulty inside our bureaucracy as well as inside the international bureaucracy when it comes to things like fund raising. The planning, in fact, incorporated the need to rehire a quarter of a million Iraqis who had been in the military. When they all went home, they were unemployed. The question is, How long does it take to generate funding in order to reemploy these people? Unfortunately, it took too long...