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...many accounts, Rice's tenure as National Security Adviser was an unhappy one, a period marked by the White House's use of faulty intelligence to hype the threat posed by Iraq's weapons program and the failure to plan for a postwar insurgency. In the run-up to the war, she was often overwhelmed by the combined duo of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who ignored her attempts at control. In his recently published history of the National Security Council (NSC), David Rothkopf, a former Clinton Administration official, writes that Secretary of State Colin Powell...
Amount Sony must pay to settle a class action for creating a fake movie critic to hype some of its mediocre films...
...time's trivializing, quiz-format overview of the Michael Jackson trial [June 27]. Although Jackson was found not guilty of child molestation, the subject of molesting young boys is not humorous, and your attempt to derive light entertainment from the case was distasteful and irresponsible. Amid all the media hype, this trial was never going to be fair, and the resulting verdict was the only one possible under the circumstances. Given the global problem of child exploitation, Time showed a remarkable lack of responsibility and sensitivity. Keith Noble Nontahburi, Thailand Of Terrorism and Detainees I appreciated your article on Mohammed...
...doubted the artistic talent at DreamWorks SKG when it was launched in 1994 amid hype befitting its superstar founders, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. Overlooked in the face of such Tinseltown royalty, though, was that none were proven CEOs--a niggling detail that has become hard to miss after a series of gaffes since the trio sold shares of its animation division to the public last year...
Beneath the hype and ambition of the prosecutors in the trials of the Mafia families lies the real issue of human frailty. The decimation of these organizations will not thwart the demand for their services. In time, others, perhaps more ruthless and less insular, will fill the vacuum. Paul Riley New York City Parisian Terror...