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From the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to Sept. 11, 2001, Path follows characters like John O'Neill (Harvey Keitel), the FBI agent who pursued bin Laden for years and died in Tower 2, and Kirk, a composite of CIA officers whose warnings--to get bin Laden in the 1990s, to better support the Taliban's enemies--went unheeded. (Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush appear only in news clips.) Over six hours, we see the signals missed, the officials obsessed with protocol and covering their backsides and the best intentions stymied by bureaucracy, fate and the complexity...
...young girls, in CBS's 2005 Elvis movie. But for the Irish actor's next swaggering royal role, in Showtime's 2007 series The Tudors, he has to learn some new skills. As Henry VIII, Rhys Meyers will tackle "jousting, lute and a minimum of six languages," alongside Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey. Even draped in jewels befitting the portly, much married monarch, "I look nothing like Henry," the lean Match Point star admits. "I have to make him my own." Funny, that's just how Anne Boleyn felt...
...have confirmed Suskind's reporting, including Zawahiri's decision to halt the attack. A former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Suskind is also the author of the 2004 book The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, which won acclaim as one of the first bare-knuckle accounts of the Bush administration's preoccupation with Saddam and its disdain for independent thinking by Cabinet members...
...Consider the lineup: Paul O'Neill, the onetime Alcoa boss, was brought in by Vice President Dick Cheney chiefly to make then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan happy. The three men had worked closely in the Ford White House, and Cheney thought he was bringing the band back together. But reunion tours don't work much better in government than they do in rock 'n' roll, and O'Neill, who had a flair for candor that matched Cheney's for secrecy, quit - or was fired, depending on whose account you believe - after two shaky years...
...Next came Snow, the former CSX Corp. executive. His tenure has been in some ways just as anticlimactic as O'Neill's, while perhaps inspiring even less confidence. He had a tendency early on to say things that spooked the markets, leading some on Wall Street and on K Street to wonder whether he understood them. When the economy flagged a bit, Snow was a less than inspiring presence on TV. And by the time the first term ended, White House officials were leaking widely that he too would soon be going - so widely that Bush decided...