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...push to create a new intelligence czar, meanwhile, may run aground at the Pentagon, which has made clear it doesn't like the prospect of surrendering its considerable authority over how intelligence resources are allocated. In March, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned the commission that consolidating authority over the myriad intelligence agencies "would be doing the country a disservice." The bottom line, says Jeffrey Smith, who served as the CIA's top lawyer for part of the Clinton years, is that "major reform is needed, but my sense is nothing will happen this year...
...mother, a year or so later, was at another peace rally) as that he cut a low-rent lyrical folk-pop album at the end of the decade. Sure, cynics might brand the DNC itself a dad trying too hard to be cool, but I for one appreciated the myriad nods to a decade when change somehow managed both to happen on a huge scale and to aim far higher than it could ever reach...
...that film. Robert Greenwald’s low-budget documentary, co-sponsored by liberal advocacy groups MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress, is short, sloppy, occasionally impactful and frequently superfluous. It presents a convincing compilation of damning footage and expert testimony demonstrating Fox’s myriad violations of journalistic ethics, but a key ingredient remains missing. Cinema must be engaging; it must be attractive. Greenwald falls flat on both counts...
...also incendiary and witheringly derisive - and it could be exactly what a generation of young voters weaned on Jackass and reality TV will respond to. Whatever its impact at home, Fahrenheit 9/11 has only cemented Moore's standing in Europe, where his blunt, truth-teller pose has won him myriad fans and hero status. People know his shortcomings - Le Monde calls Fahrenheit 9/11 "simplistic and often demagogic" - but cheer him on anyway. His latest book, Dude, Where's My Country? , has been on the German best-seller lists for more than 30 weeks. The idea that this renegade could galvanize...
...furniture all get sucked into the vortex of this monster mash. As the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's Victoria Lynn writes in the catalog, the exhibition's approach "is more in line with the ways in which we absorb and process information today: through fragments, a myriad of databases and search engines...