Word: secretiveness
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Doubts about Panetta's political skills had arisen in the summer, when President Obama decided to release secret memos about the CIA's controversial interrogation practices at Guantánamo Bay and other secret prisons - and when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered an investigation into potential wrongdoing by interrogators...
Goats, the runt of the trio, is based on Jon Ronson's book about the U.S. military's secret "remote viewing" missions, which trained men to concentrate so hard, they could run through walls. Lyn Cassady (Clooney) is trying to harness his super power for the allied effort in the early days of the Iraq invasion. His student and foil is Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), a naive journalist in search of a scoop...
McKellen almost redeems the miniseries as Two. The leader has a story of his own, including an ailing wife and a rebellious son. Two has less control over his family and their love than he does over the Village, and McKellen's wonderfully calibrated performance combines arrogance and secret pain. Whatever the Village's purpose, it has not solved Two's problems...
...love (70% vs. 61%). Don't trust soda-company polls? Consumer Reports confirms that we don't plan to spend much money this Christmas, but the vast majority of us - 87% - expect this holiday season will be as happy as or even happier than last year's. Meanwhile, the Secret Society of Happy People (which "encourages the expression of happiness and discourages parade-raining") reports traffic to its not-so-secret website has increased since the downturn. (See 20 ways to get and stay happy...
...uranium enrichment. Beijing and Moscow want to defuse the crisis and avoid confrontation. And they're also likely to be more comfortable with an outcome that sees Iran keep its uranium enrichment operations, but under stricter international monitoring and supervision. Indeed, that's the thrust of a secret deal that a British newspaper last weekend reported was being touted by outgoing IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei...