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...Black Hole War By Leonard Susskind; out now This is the story of a 25-year argument between physicists Susskind and Stephen Hawking over what happens to stuff that falls into a black hole. Hawking says it disappears; Susskind disagrees. You could dismiss it all as nerd-on-nerd violence, but then you'd miss out on Susskind explaining why the universe is actually a hologram...
...also, curiously, the record of a pair of very hard-working crooks. Gere, as Irving, and Alfred Molina, as Dick Susskind, his timorous but devoted research assistant, probably put as much effort into researching their fake book as they would have for an authentic one. Since all biographies and autobiographies are in some sense fictional constructs, it could be (cynically) argued that their product was probably no less authentic than more respectable entries in the field. Indeed, in the aftermath of their effort, Irving has often insisted that theirs was a terrific book. Whether or not that's true, both...
...gets the impression that by the end of Irving's odyssey, he may actually think he has had access to Hughes. What the hell - he's learned to emulate Hughes' handwriting and his voice. Maybe he really is, in some mystic way, channeling the legendary nut job. Susskind is less fortunate; he's always sweatily in touch with reality and with the potentially unpleasant consequences of what they're doing...
...Suskind writes that CIA officials threatened to harm 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's kids, ages seven and nine, if he didn't cooperate with his interrogators in Thailand. "So fine," Khalid Sheikh Mohammed responded to the threat, according to one of Susskind's sources. "They'll join Allah in a better place...
...excerpt from the book in the Washington Post in April 2004. While the President wasn't quoted as a source for that remark, he had been interviewed by Woodward for the book. Tenet "wondered how the President could recall so clearly something Tenet himself didn't remember saying," Susskind writes, and felt the White House was setting him up as a "fall guy" for the bad intelligence that many in the CIA believed came from the Pentagon and members of Vice President Cheney's staff eager to overthrow Saddam...