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...other branch of show business, loves the myth of the heroic understudy--the unknown who coolly takes the stage when the headliner can't. Now that the spotlight is on Tenet, a bipartisan chorus is calling him the perfect man for the role of CIA director. It's a monstrous job. Three directors in the past six years have tried to drag America's $30-billion-a-year intelligence empire into the post-cold war era as ugly disclosures--especially the unmasking of traitors Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson--made the agency seem an unreliable relic. Why should anyone think...
...tromped about his country, which he no longer recognized, was of it and out of it at the same time, feigned this and that, and intuited the presence of a monstrous lie while harboring only a suspicion of the truth...
...never been made before. That's painting.") Picasso's original contribution stemmed from his first viewing, earlier in 1907, of African masks and fetishes at a Paris museum. He imposed such masks on the face of two of his demoiselles, thereby rendering these commercial temptresses both alluring and monstrous. Richardson writes, "Familiarity has inured us to the horror that these dog-faced demoiselles caused when they were first unveiled, almost a century ago. It was as if Picasso had unleashed a new race of gorgons on the world...
...Congress, calls it "a smoking gun" and a true test of Swiss bona fides. "For 50 years," says Steinberg, "they have been telling us, 'We can't give you any money because you have no records.' Now if they say we still can't have it, the implications are monstrous. After all, this is their list, not ours." Jewish organizations in Europe and the U.S. believe Switzerland's vaults still hold prewar deposits that, with a half-century of interest, could be worth $3 billion to $7 billion today. Even if the claim is too high--as it probably...
...what the article I read in the Times should reinforce is that, although the rhetoric of the Holocaust may be among its only tangible legacies for those of us who are young, these words have real meanings--they refer to one of the most monstrous events ever to occur in the annals of man. I am well acquainted with it: Many members of my family were among its victims. Any tragedy is not a "Holocaust" or a "genocide," nor is every right-winger a "Nazi" or a "Fascist." Using these terms where they are not applicable trivializes the ideas they...