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...hope it will become a lasting tool for academics and policymakers,” said Gordon Li, an IOP staffer who has worked on the CAPPS project since the fall...
...director's prickliness disappears as he darts gleefully from room to room, interrupting workers to show off a spinning zoetrope, a vintage movie projector, a handcrafted model airplane. Stepping around a staffer who is painting a trompe l'oeil on a wall, he shows off his proudest creation?his fantasy studio. Tomes on anatomy and history crowd the shelves, a pterodactyl hovers overhead, desks spill over with tubes of paint, old postcards, a jar of pencil stubs. Copies of his sketches are tacked, unframed, all over the walls. Nothing is roped off. "I wanted to show the roots of inspiration...
...York with unsettling regularity - not to mention getting mailed there from New Jersey, where a good portion of the displaced financial community fled after the planes hit - the big-money investors took it pretty well. All this meant was that now no one would open the mail of staffer-drenched folks like Tom Brokaw and Pataki - financial types do it all by computer anyway - and it?s not as if the Post Office was ever a good investment...
...meantime, there's a civil defense movie staffers can go see which is short on information but long on frightening scenarios. "It will scare the bejesus out of you," said one staffer. In one frame someone is entering the mailroom of the Longworth Building with a packet strapped inside his jacket and in the next computer-generated frame the Longworth Building blows up. It?s good for democracy that member of Congress aren?t getting special treatment. But how good is it for the Republic that they?re getting little treatment at all? Let?s hope the task force gets...
...give away the "profits" - and we'll assume that's not an accounting weasel word but that most of the commercial money will actually find its way to the victims. The second is the other running storyline, in which the chief of staff (John Spencer) interrogates an Arab-American staffer wrongly accused of being a terrorist mole (Ajay Naidu, whom you might remember from "Office Space"), which occasionally achieves a nuance and unresolved ambiguity that Mr. Sorkin's Civics 101 doesn...