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...Goss, who near the end of his CIA tenure led an agency crackdown on leaks and fired an agent for being one of the sources for the Washington Post's reporting on the renditions program, has not directly confirmed his interview with Grey in 2001. His spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyke said in an e-mail that "although that may have been the first time Mr. Grey heard the term, it certainly is not the first time the U.S. government publicly discussed this decades-old tool." Indeed, then-CIA Director William Webster told the Washington Post in 1989 that the Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...have a choice. I could work on my "ohs," "oos" and "ows," and try to be a bit more slack about consonants. Or I could holiday in Essex, east of London, for total Estuary immersion. But somehow I don't think my Dick Van Dyke Cockney chimney sweep impression would fool anyone for a moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't the English Learn How to Speak? | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

Hamilton is 50 miles from Buffalo, so I rarely watched Canadian TV. My influences were Stan Laurel, Harpo Marx, Jerry Lewis, Nichols and May, Jonathan Winters, Dick Van Dyke and Jackie Gleason. Those were the big heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Martin Short | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

Area newspapers, such as the Boston Herald, criticized Wellesley for the 11 hospitalizations that took place after the Dyke Ball, an infamous annual event that is known for its “anything goes” spirit. Rolling Stone reported that the students “routinely arrive nearly topless, or wearing only Saran Wrap or body paint (which inevitably sweats off by the end of the night).” It was what Winthrop’s Debauchery dance aspires to be. While most students would argue that 11 hospitalizations out of 3,000 guests is actually a fairly...

Author: By Alexandra M. Gutierrez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Girls Next Door | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

...around 1 AM, the Zeta Alpha party is in full-swing. Women who seem to be dressed for the unofficial Dyke Ball, which was rumored to take place underground this year, stroll through the door. They wear bathrobes and bumper stickers, adding even more character to a party composed of biker babes and women in drag. The odd pair of breasts or pair of women kissing can be spotted at the party, but while some male guests ogle, everyone else is nonplussed. Indeed, more provocative actions were perhaps occurring concurrently in the Winthrop dining hall that night...

Author: By Alexandra M. Gutierrez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Girls Next Door | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

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