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...particularly effective ... As the source becomes convinced that all the information that he knows is contained within the dossier, the [interrogator] proceeds to topics on which he has no or little information. In doing so, he still refers to the appropriate section of the dossier and may even nod his head knowingly or tell the source that the information the source is providing still matches what is in the dossier...
...time. For yesterday's Inaugural ceremony, photos of the crowd bracing against the cold reveal a lot of knit caps and bare heads. But closer to the epicenter of power, on the podium where President Barack Obama delivered his Inaugural Address, there was a noticeable flurry of fedoras - a nod, perhaps, to a bygone era when wearing a hat was a sign of respect and also celebration. (Look to Aretha Franklin's euphoric gray felt concoction.) Former Vice President Dick Cheney, Utah Senator Robert Bennett and the Rev. Jesse Jackson all wore fedoras during the ceremony. Later, at the Inaugural...
...apparent nod to that sentiment, King Abdullah struck a conciliatory note on Monday when he told the Kuwait summit that the Arab peace initiative, his own brainchild, could be withdrawn, a shift that indicates the moderates may be losing the argument. "Israel has to understand that the choice between war and peace will not always stay open and that the Arab peace initiative that is on the table today will not stay on the table," he said...
...Hare could be up for another Oscar nod this year for his latest screenplay, an adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader. The film, with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, follows a German teenager's love affair with an older woman he later discovers was a Nazi concentration-camp guard. For Hare, it's both a meditation on truth and reconciliation, and an exploration of how ordinary Germans became complicit in Nazi horrors. The Reader revisits his signature subject: how personal responsibility meshes with historical events. And it underlines his role as modern theater's great connector, examining...
...will nod at you understandingly, knowing the oddity and cogency of dreams. You get up and go to work, sit in board meatings. You are sane...