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...biggest changes in Washington often come about with just a few strokes of the pen. And so a dry, one-page internal memo quietly issued by the White House is being viewed as a kind of eulogy for the once mighty Central Intelligence Agency. After nearly 60 years at the pinnacle of American intelligence-and at the elbow of Presidents-the CIA director is no longer automatically welcome at the President's National Security Council (NSC) meetings. John Negroponte, the new director of National Intelligence, has taken his chair...
...begin, I find it exhilarating to enter a profession at a time where there is work to be done. Print media, in particular, must undergo a substantial revolution to beat its online adversaries, and I want to raise my pen in the fight...
These sites—namely the Cellar and the Fogg Museum, where most of the story’s main characters work—are strikingly and realistically represented in Stevens’ pen-and-ink crosshatchings. And the characters who pass through these places do behave dumbly, providing a stark narrative counterpoint to the dramatic black and white imagery...
Although this aspect can occasionally be inconsistent as well, it is Stevens’ attentive pen-and-ink renderings that carry the work. Accordingly, Stevens often abandons the dialogue-driven narrative for an entire page, favoring a cinematic style of slow, atmospheric visual observation...
While she waits for John’s call—only when it comes will she know where she’s headed or who she’ll be with tonight—Bambi leans into her literature textbook, pen in hand and 7-11 coffee at her side. She just finished up Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” which applies beautifully to her failed relationships with men—the latest a classic hook-up gone sour. “He basically understands man as what...