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...terrorism czar Richard Clarke, hardly an administration apologist, have charged that the agency’s risk-averse culture has held back efforts to cultivate human assets in the Arab world. But it appears that Goss and his gang may be putting politics ahead of real reform. On Sunday, Newsday quoted a former senior CIA official, who charged that the Goss shakeup is really about evening old scores: “The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House. Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked...
Betsy Lerner’s Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories is, as one might infer by glancing at the title, not much more refreshing. Newsday claims that the work is “destined to take its place alongside the classics of adolescent angst, Girl Interrupted and The Bell...
Foster-Keddie, the creator of the T-shirt, told Newsday last week that “this shirt’s real intention is to sum up the current state of political affairs, pointing a finger at all of us who’ve been so apathetic in the past...
...Yankees want to re-sign Pettitte more than ever now and most experts are saying they will. Even with Pettitte, New York will probably go after Bartolo Colon or Kevin Brown, filling out the rotation nicely with Mike Mussina and Jose Contreras. Newsday reported that the Yankees and Dodgers are talking about a deal involving Jeff Weaver and Brown...
Caro began his career as a reporter the Long Island newspaper Newsday, and admits that “it was at Harvard that I decided to write [my first book].” While a Nieman Fellow in 1965, his wife Ina, also a writer, was unable to stay with him in Boston, so he spent most evenings “in a tiny office in Leverett, sitting and thinking...