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Ironically, Lake might have been better suited to the CIA post than he was to the NSC. He is secretive by nature and never sought the limelight; a bulletin board used to hang in the White House situation room with all the press photos that described him as an "unidentified staffer." While at the White House, he preferred shooting pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations...
...National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, not wanting a repeat of the Lake mess, argued that Clinton should wait until lawyers vetted Tenet one more time. Then around 3 p.m., word reached the White House that Senators--Republican Senators--had swooned over Tenet that morning, crowding around him at a secret budget briefing and predicting his confirmation hearings would be a lovefest. Even Richard Shelby, the intelligence-committee chairman whose guerrilla warfare helped bring down Lake, "was falling in [Tenet's] lap," a White House aide told TIME. Hearing that, Clinton went on TV at 4:48 p.m. and nominated Tenet...
...soldier "experimental force" against the toughest men in the war-game business, Fort Irwin's vaunted 2,000-man "opposing force." OPFOR had the home-turf advantage, with a 90% win record in this 20-sq.-mi. stretch of the Mojave Desert. But Oaks' EXFOR had a secret weapon: humvees and M-1 tanks crammed with enough computers and state-of-the-art communications gear to put every soldier inside the military equivalent of an America Online chat room, with instant access to grunts and commanders alike...
When Robinson took the field with the Dodgers for the first time on April 12, 1947, America was wallowing in apartheid. A year before Robinson's breakthrough, Major League Baseball had conducted a secret study of the impact of allowing black athletes to play the national game. It concluded that integrating the teams would not only offend white sensibilities but also lower the standard of play. Maybe someday, when blacks were ready, baseball could take the risk. How familiar these arguments sound a half-century later in the debate over affirmative action. It's not remarked on much these days...
...aunt in Liverpool, whence his parents had emigrated. Thus, perhaps, was Myers' deep-seated anglophilia born. His newest creation, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, is clearly from a place far, far away from Wayne's World. He's a swinging '60s English fashion photographer by day and secret agent by night, who has himself frozen, as does his nemesis, Dr. Evil, also played by Myers. When Evil returns in 1997, so must Powers, along with his 1967 sexual mores and bad teeth. "The English won the war," says Myers of the many dental jokes in the movie, "and lost...