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Felt's revelation stunned Washington, including (and perhaps especially) the three other men who had protected his secret for so long. For years, the Post reporters and their boss, Ben Bradlee, who was executive editor of the Post during the Watergate era, had vowed never to expose Felt before his death, and Woodward and Bernstein argued against confirming his identity even after the Vanity Fair story came out. But all three realized Felt had voided their honorably kept pledge to protect him, and his admission effectively backed up their long-standing contention that Deep Throat was neither fiction...
...perceptive 1992 article in Atlantic Monthly, former Post reporter James Mann speculated that Felt or another top FBI official was the one who had leaked to Woodward as a way to protect his beloved FBI from Nixon's efforts to use the agency for political purposes. Deep Throat, wrote Mann, probably resented the appointment of outsider and Nixon loyalist L. Patrick Gray to replace FBI Director Hoover, who had died six weeks before the Watergate break-in, and wanted to blunt White House efforts to suppress the FBI investigation of the burglary. Of course, the FBI under Hoover...
...protect Maori from the onslaught of English, the Language Commission has created new terms for hundreds of modern concepts (for electricity it chose hiko, or unseen power; computer is rorohiko, electric brain). Most Maori speakers, though, learned English as their first language. And when their Maori vocabulary comes up short, they reach for an English word. Young speakers increasingly structure Maori sentences as if they were English, says Bauer. "Swapping words is one thing," says Toni Waho, a pioneering te reo teacher. "The sinister thing is when grammar changes, because grammar reflects cultural values and ways of thinking. We have...
...think he would know how to project--and protect--himself in public. His greatest strength as an actor was that he played Tom Cruise brilliantly. As a Mission Impossible hero and a Collateral villain, he got audiences to feel the pleasure he took in being watched. And as an interview subject, he took care to be amiable but reveal little. Now he's playing the impulsive adolescent and the dispenser of stern advice. He slammed doctors for giving kids Ritalin and criticized Brooke Shields, the star of Cruise's first film (Endless Love, 1981), for her brief dependence on prescription...
...Snow kept up public pressure on Beijing last week to revalue its currency, the renminbi, a move that Washington believes would brake China's surging trade surplus. China has also announced tariffs on its own exports of textiles to pre-empt possible moves by Europe and the U.S. to protect home markets. In this environment, the purchase by a state-owned Chinese oil producer of a U.S. rival no doubt would stir controversy. But in the global oil patch, China's surging appetite for reserves is now a fact of life. "Welcome to the oil business of the 21st century...