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...policy debates. Meanwhile, the other burr in Powell's saddle, the Pentagon, is having at least as much trouble retaining its ideologues as retaining its infantry. The two top aides to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--Wolfowitz and policy chief Douglas Feith, who created a special intelligence office to iron out what hard-liners believed were imperfections in the CIA's too evenhanded work--will be departing the policymaking arena. Though he was never as doctrinaire as many people believed, Rumsfeld swam comfortably in the hard-liners' slipstream for months. Now, without those guys on point, he moves much more carefully...
...Iron Theatre Company proves the possibilities of non-traditional careers in the arts. As OFA coordinator Thomas Lee says, “Pig Iron created itself and created its own work for itself…it’s a wonderful testament to the power of theater in this...
...firm—but each company that takes on the project soon finds itself filing for bankruptcy. Perhaps there is something inherently flawed in the idea of a character who is a cut-rate Houdini knockoff representing an organization called The Golden Key battling the evil forces of The Iron Chain...
Vaughn’s story, “To Reign in Hell,” follows the Escapist’s helper Big Al as he is bribed by The Escapist’s rival, a nefarious organization known as The Iron Chain. In the end, Big Al helps the Escapist triumph, but there is the clear indication that maybe, for a strongman like himself, evil might have been the right path. By adding moral ambiguity to a classically structured narrative, Vaughn makes the comic compelling even to modern audiences...
...Harrison has been completely gentrified, and the picturesque snowdrifts, wrought iron railings, and pristine yellow flags belie its former industrial function. Further indications of its newly upscale status are the three artsy houseware stores that are situated among the galleries...