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...Ironically, his second nomination to be CIA director was almost sunk by the same accusation the current Bush administration has faced on Iraq - that intelligence was slanted to suit hard-line policies toward an enemy. During highly charged confirmation hearings in the fall of 1991, which were unprecedented for an agency that usually keeps its bureaucratic battles shrouded in secrecy, past and current CIA employees accused Gates of cooking the books on the Soviet threat. As then-Director William Casey's intelligence analysis chief and later deputy director in the 1980s, Gates had shaped intelligence reports to suit Casey...
...Monday Gordon got to make his case, and a majority of Justices may agree with him. As desegregation orders are lifted across the country and school districts struggle to remain integrated, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed to a potential paradox of the Jefferson County suit. "What's constitutionally required one day gets constitutionally prohibited the next day?" she pondered. "That's very odd." But the newest members of the Court, Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed skeptical of such open-ended social engineering. And Justice Anthony Kennedy, who could be the swing vote in this case, worried...
...deliberately opted out of his usual central driving plot to present us instead with a panoramic Babel-style view of a whole society gone genetically mad, I tell you, mad. If so, the experiment, like so many he describes, has gone disastrously wrong. This kind of messiness doesn't suit him at all. Crichton's narratives work because they're as gleaming and orderly as nature is frighteningly chaotic. Not that he's wrong: for all I know we may be heading for a transgenic apocalypse. It's just that in literature, unlike in science, being right isn't enough...
...That You, Bond" [NOV. 20]: Daniel Craig, the latest actor to portray James Bond, reminds me of Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. His muscular torso goes with a T shirt and jeans more than a Brioni suit. From your article, I understood how the movie industry's obsession with the hyperkinetic brutality of action films is choking the sophisticated elegance of 007. Isn't there any way to make more room for cultural diversity in Hollywood...
...teammate and junior Alex Obrecht. Otherwise, however, the Crimson only won four more events out of the 15 total. On the women’s side, Harvard took just five of ten events total. Just like with the men, the field events were the Crimson’s strong suit. Junior Maureen Boyle led a sweep in the weight throw with her 15.10 meter toss. Senior Clara Blattler earned a victory in the pole vault by clearing the 3.65 meter mark. —THE CRIMSON STAFF