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...likable, can-do surgeon and two-time cancer survivor is known for taking on outsize tasks, reflected best in his controversial vow to "end suffering and death due to cancer" by 2015. In a letter to the heads of major U.S. cancer centers, he talked up the virtue of having the FDA and NCI "work together" to smooth the path from lab bench to bedside...
...continue protecting them. But Libby's lawyer Joseph Tate suggested that Libby had offered Miller a freely given waiver as much as a year ago and that her lawyers dropped the ball--either they didn't understand the offer or they failed to communicate it to Miller. In a letter that Libby wrote to Miller after the negotiations resumed last month, Libby assumed an intimate tone: "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work--and life." Libby said that he was surprised...
...assertion by Libby's team that he had been giving her the green light all along brought a quick rebuttal from one of Miller's attorneys, Floyd Abrams. In a letter to Libby's lawyers "to set the record straight," Abrams argued that until recently, the waiver offered by Libby's lawyers always amounted to a reference to the previously signed waiver that Miller considered "coerced." That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Miller testify, no matter what Libby's lawyers implied--a hesitation that gave Miller pause...
...might be a good time to approach Libby with a new request to personally waive the confidentiality agreement. It took Miller's lawyers a month, till Sept. 29, to hammer out the details with Libby and Fitzgerald. A legal source told TIME that Fitzgerald gave both camps a letter saying that if Miller and Libby were to have a talk about making a deal, the prosecutor wouldn't view the conversation as collusive or obstructive as long as they didn't discuss what Miller would testify to. Said Bennett: "She would not testify until she was satisfied that the source...
Donaldson saw items ranging from a 1777 letter by George Washington authorizing a network of spies in New York City to a latter-day camera so tiny that it is concealed in a button. "I grew up in the cold war, where we sat under our desks in school during drills and hoped that we wouldn't be bombed," Donaldson says. "The Spy Museum brought that time in my life back to me in full, living color...