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...government. In May 2003, shortly after New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof first wrote about a secret CIA mission to Africa by an unnamed U.S. ambassador to assess suggestions by Cheney's office that Iraq had tried to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger, Libby asked Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman to go digging for more information on the mission. It was not an idle inquiry: the 2002 trip, taken by a former U.S. ambassador to Gabon, Joseph Wilson, had turned up no evidence that Iraq sought the uranium ore for its nuclear weapons program, as Cheney's office had suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libby: Fall of a Vulcan | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

Over the next few weeks, Libby got progress reports from the INR, and Grossman eventually informed Libby that it was Wilson who took the trip, that his wife worked at the CIA and that she may have played a role in sending Wilson on the trip. Fitzgerald's indictment alleges that Libby heard similar reports about Wilson and his wife from a senior CIA official and, on June 12, from Cheney, who by then knew that Wilson's wife worked in the CIA's Counterproliferation Division. To hard-liners like Libby, who believed that the CIA opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libby: Fall of a Vulcan | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...political right. Greenspan is a consensus builder who rarely convenes a meeting without knowing every vote. Bernanke built a similar reputation running the economics department at Princeton from 1996 to 2002. "When he took over the chair, there was a lot of infighting and bickering," recalls Gene Grossman, a colleague at Princeton. "He made it one of his objectives to get more consensus on decisions." Greenspan and Bernanke play the saxophone and possess a wry sense of humor. Chided by the President for wearing tan socks with a dark suit, Bernanke bought more pairs and persuaded the Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Ways The New Fed Chairman Will Be Different | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...retired superheroes reunited by the murder of a former teammate, Watchmen is told in fugal, over-lapping plotlines and gorgeous panels rich with cinematic leitmotifs. A work of ruthless psychological realism, it's a landmark in the graphic novel medium. It would be a masterpiece in any. --By Lev Grossman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 10 of TIME's Hundred Best Novels | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...Serenity, which opens Sept. 30th. Gaiman created the instant-classic comic book Sandman, and he's the author of the new novel Anansi Boys, out this month. He has a new movie, Mirrormask, which also opens Sept. 30. They chatted on the phone together-chaperoned by TIME's Lev Grossman-about their work, their fans, their Klingon bodyguards and, of course, Timecop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon | 9/25/2005 | See Source »

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