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...consolidating his power as the nation's intelligence czar. The May 2 memo, obtained by TIME and also reported late last week by GovWatch.com states that "effective immediately," Negroponte will participate in meetings of the NSC and its domestic counterpart, the Homeland Security Council (HSC). Meanwhile, CIA Director Porter Goss "will attend NSC and HSC meetings at the direction of the President." That's the polite Beltway equivalent of saying, "Don't call us. We'll call...
...clear diminution in the authority of the director of CIA," says David Rothkopf, a Clinton Administration official and author of a new book on the NSC. "If you're not in the room, you're not playing an influential role." CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise says Goss, who was sworn in as CIA chief last September, still attends his share of meetings-and isn't in the game for "face time." He "is there when he needs to be," says Millerwise. Goss has so far publicly ignored any suggestions that his power has been reduced. Though he is no longer...
Perhaps he meant to hide behind the big hair. In February reclusive pop singer GEORGE MICHAEL told the press he planned to retire from the music industry and "disappear" from the public eye. TIME found Michael last week standing by his man, Kenny Goss, his partner of nine years, at the opening of Goss's new art gallery in Dallas. Yep, Dallas. "There is a refreshing lack of cynicism here," Michael said of his part-time hometown. Despite saying he would call it quits after his 2004 effort Patience, the former Wham! star is rumored to have a new album...
...response: "So that's why those bastards keep telling me about Mozambique." The new approach is getting some good reviews. State Department intelligence officials have been pleased to see "divergent viewpoints" included in the report, an official says. And Negroponte's new involvement should free CIA Director Porter Goss--who has lamented that preparing the presidential briefing can take up to six hours of his workday--to spend more time running the country's biggest human spy machine. --By Brian Bennett and Timothy J. Burger. With reporting by Matthew Cooper and Elaine Shannon
...Richard goss / anglia press agency After decades of experimentation, the world's first black hyacinth, Midnight Mystique, has arrived. The three "ancestor" bulbs whose genes helped create the dusky shoot of bell-shaped florets were bought for over $93,000 each. But the fashionable flower promises to recoup that investment and then some. Bulbs will sell for $15 each - over 10 times the norm for hyacinths - and gardeners worldwide are already clamoring for the dark side of the bloom...