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Repatriating one’s search records is kind of like wrapping one’s head in tinfoil and running for the border. Beyond the Bush administration’s gaze and shrouded in Canada’s more privacy-friendly (and, perhaps, terrorist-friendly) institutions, a scholar can only hope against hope that research in apparently fringe subjects like nuclear proliferation and Islam won’t lead to her becoming the subject of a (secret) investigation...
That was, in many ways, a return to where he started. He rose through the CIA's analysis directorate as a Russia scholar during the 1970s until plucked for stardom by Reagan spymaster William Casey. Gates had a reputation as a tough-nosed hard-liner; in fact, Gates was never a mirror image of the shrewdly moderate Baker. During the first Bush Administration, Gates was far more skeptical of Mikhail Gorbachev and his perestroika program than was either Baker or the President. Gates' closest ally in that minor crusade was none other than then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Gates' nickname...
...Peter Skerry, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, teaches political science at Boston College
...translate more dialogue than earlier versions. Extras include interviews shot especially for the disc with Renoir's son, with the film's set designer and with one of its stars, Mila Parely, as well as British and French TV documentaries about the director. The audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by director Peter Bogdanovich is a model...
...work, this 1959 film about a compulsive young criminal in Paris is the best place to start. Schrader appears on this disc to provide a new introduction to the film and to Bresson's demanding but ultimately captivating approach to the medium. The audio commentary is by the film scholar James Quandt, editor of the best single volume work on Bresson in English. In the way typical of Criterion, which regularly hunts through the archives of foreign television, the disc's producers have also tracked down a 1960 French TV interview with the elusive Bresson, as well...