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...soldier's attitude toward politics springs from his training at the academy. All cadets attend lectures on governance. Arts majors take a political-science course studying Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Indian strategist Chanakya, Arab historian Ibn Khaldun and Pakistani poet Muhammad Iqbal. But the average soldier learns more in the mess hall and the boxing ring than from this tutoring in political theory. "Phhh," sneers Major General Hamid Rab Nawaz, the academy's commandant. "I never studied political science myself...
...Sources say that Justice Department officials have informed Plato Cacheris, Hanssen's lawyer, that the Bureau of Prisons can't closely restrict Hanssen's communications, as required by the plea agreement, if he is assigned to Allenwood, the low-security prison that CIA traitor Aldrich Ames calls home. Hanssen wanted to be posted to Allenwood in hopes that he might be visited frequently by his wife Bonnie and their six children...
...said of words as well. A more companionable relationship with the dead seems to diminish death's worst feature, absence. Dead quiet as a library is supposed to be, its residents are continually chatting up a storm. On any given shelf, at any given hour, Hamlet broods, Hitler rants, Plato dreams, and Grant, gracious in victory, permit Lee's men to keep their horses...
...million worldwide. More than a sleeper blockbuster, it was a blazingly original collage of martial arts, Oscar-winning special effects and high-toned philosophy borrowed from sources as diverse as Plato, the Bible and Snow White. Since Larry and Andy Wachowski, the fraternal directing duo, had always envisioned The Matrix as part one of a trilogy, Warner Bros. quickly put not one but two more Matrix films into production. "The first movie was like The Hobbit for The Lord of the Rings," says producer Joel Silver. "It's the setup to the big story...
...delayed a second time, according to government sources. The hitch: after debriefing Hanssen for months, FBI agents still aren't convinced he has told the whole truth about his role in what a blue ribbon commission recently called "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." Hanssen's lawyer, Plato Cacheris, insists his client has done his best to cooperate fully, as he pledged when he struck a plea bargain last July to avoid the death penalty. Still, some FBI officials think serious inconsistencies remain in his account of 21 years as a double agent for Soviet intelligence, during which...