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...anticipate the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. And they were not reassured by the CIA's performance after 9/11 either. By last fall, Rumsfeld had grown so impatient with the CIA's equivocal explanations of the Iraq problem that he set up his own mini-CIA at the Pentagon called the Office of Special Plans. It was hatched and designed, as a former U.S. official puts it, to get "the intelligence he wanted...
Your story on the mini-series Hitler: The Rise of Evil [TELEVISION, May 19] reported that many people were concerned that this biography of Adolf Hitler would risk humanizing the tyrant--as if this were a bad thing! What better way to combat evil than to understand it in its full context? We must comprehend all the facets--human and inhuman--of Hitler's life in order to appreciate fully the horror that his hate brought to the world. In refusing to pay attention to the disturbing ways in which Hitler may have resembled a normal person, the world runs...
King also delivered a sample of the sort of news commentary that made him famous, hashing out the O.J. Simpson trial of the mid-90s and outlining what he said was the brilliant potential the situation had for being made into a television mini-series...
...biggest improvement over last year was the team’s performance between the end of exams in January and the final weekend of the regular season. Last season, Harvard was just 2-8-1 during that span; this year, after an intensive mini-camp during intersession, the Crimson’s record during that same stretch...
...students to concentrate as if they were mini grad students” notes Harris...