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...family made soup back in the States. She still calls him "the love of my life." When Heinz died in a 1991 plane crash, she turned down a chance to run for his Senate seat and poured her energy instead into refocusing how the Heinz family's philanthropic network deploys its $2 billion in assets. One of her primary causes is the environment. When she was serving as a delegate to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, she struck up a friendship with one of the other delegates, to whom her husband had once introduced...
...biological arms on which the Bush Administration had predicated its unprecedented, pre-emptive attack on Saddam Hussein's regime, it was Kay. The Texan had spent 20 years as an international weapons inspector, with several tours in Iraq. Hard-nosed and fiercely independent, Kay, 63, had a vast network of friends at the Pentagon and the CIA--and among Iraqis in Baghdad. A political conservative, he sent the Bush campaign a check for $200 not long after Bush began his quest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1999, and he supported a tough line on Saddam. When Tenet tapped...
...realized that Saddam wasn't "even that organized." Looking back on it, Kay said, "this wasn't a blinding flash. It was a slow accretion of evidence that was all pointing in the same direction." Kay was struck that he couldn't find any sign of the logistical network of trucks, drivers and construction workers required of a sophisticated weapons program. "If that stuff doesn't exist,'' he said, "it means the stuff you're looking for doesn't exist...
...Billy Crystal, is three weeks earlier than usual. One reason: the Academy didn't want its big show to limp into view two months after the Golden Globes and the People's Choice Awards had co-opted much of Oscar's clout. Another reason: TV revenue. ABC, a major-network also-ran, wants the show that earns its highest ratings and biggest ad income to be aired during the February sweeps month...
...invisibility" touchstone for high tech is itself quickly becoming obsolete. The stuff coming out of government and corporate R.-and-D. labs is designed to be invisible from the start: "smart dust" distributed in the wind that instantly forms a scattered monitoring network, computer systems that manage computer systems, micro spy cameras designed to look like insects...