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...formal investigation. Agents had a deeply ingrained habit of keeping information to themselves and filing paper reports. There was no computer network permitting broad searches for terms like Arabs and flight schools. The FBI's greasy pole was tilted, leaning away from counterterrorism work and toward the traditional pursuit of such crimes as Mob activity, kidnapping and white-collar offenses. Intelligence work? That was the last thing an up-and-coming agent wanted to do. "Traditional agents who weren't good on the street were put into intelligence," said Jack Lawn, a veteran FBI agent who later ran the Drug...
...leader than a Prime Minister who prefers poetry, a rousing orator who shuns the public and a computer illiterate, 79, whose young tech warriors are taking on the world. But Vajpayee's greatest trick--and the one that places him among the world's most significant figures--is his pursuit of peace with Pakistan while heading the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party), which rose to power in the 1990s on a wave of Hindu chauvinism. In January the Hindu Vajpayee met Pakistan's Muslim President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad and agreed on talks...
...Coen brothers’ limp remake of a classic Alec Guinness comedy has its occasional laughs, but ends up becoming boring in its pursuit of essentially sweet comedy. Tom Hanks is the leader of a gang of robbers forced to masquerade as a band in order to rent church-lady Irma P. Hall’s basement because it connects to the basement of their target. Although the Coens’ affection for southern tradition is sweet and the manic third act brings things up a notch, it isn’t enough to save this essentially mediocre film...
...this pursuit, Kerry continues the work begun by Gov. Howard Dean’s campaign. Regardless of the Dean campaign’s intrinsic merits, or even of Dean’s own personal appeal, his campaign resonated with what his advisers optimistically termed “Generation Dean.” If Kerry can capture that energy and enthusiasm, stoke it, and harness it, he will surely benefit in November while doing an invaluable service for the country that transcends his own political fortunes. In fact, we strongly encourage all politicians, from across the political spectrum, to genuinely reach...
...concern seems unwarrated. Harvard has so many opportunities to learn about so many different things—what difference, you may ask, should it make if some people don’t find other cultures very interesting? They’re probably neck-deep in some other equally engaging pursuit, some would argue, and they are hardly to blame if they aren’t actively interested...