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...Actually, far more people watch 24-an addictive comic book of a show-than the serious films. There is an indomitable hero, Jack Bauer, who saves the world from evil with stunning regularity. But Bauer is different from pre-9/11 action heroes: he routinely and rather zestfully tortures people, which almost always results in the acquisition of crucial information. Indeed, whenever someone says, "Jack, you can't do that," the only reasonable viewer response is "Oh, shut up! Go for it, Jack." The show's message is not very subtle: We can win this war, but only...
...they were questioned about calls they supposedly made to people linked to the London bombers, says Frangiscos Ragoussis, the Greek lawyer representing Hayatt and six other Pakistanis. Ragoussis also represented a member of the Greek terrorist organization November 17 who is serving multiple life sentences. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the allegations are "complete nonsense" and Greek Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis said the incidents "had never and will never happen." Last week the Athens weekly Proto Thema named nine of 10 intelligence officers it said were involved. Ragoussis, who says he filed a complaint with the state prosecutor...
Former bond managers David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels were paid $18 and $16.9 million, respectively, for their work at Harvard Management Company (HMC), which invests the endowment. Jack R. Meyer, the firm's former president, received $6 million for the fiscal year that ended June...
...DIED. JACK ANDERSON, 83, Pulitzer prizewinning journalist whose muckraking columns terrified Beltway politicians for more than a half-century; in Bethesda, Md. A devout Mormon who viewed his work as a calling, Anderson often enraged his powerful subjects with his syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, which broke stories like the Reagan Administration's arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and the secret transcripts of the Watergate grand jury. Richard Nixon put Anderson on his "enemies" list, prompting Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy to devise a plan to murder him. Still, when Anderson's work on Watergate resulted in arrests...
Best Tracks: Sister Jack, I Turn My Camera On, I Summon...