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...Stasi, East Germany's spy agency. The unusual trip through the espionage landmarks of Berlin was part of a conference, "On the Front Lines of the Cold War," sponsored by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence and the Allied Museum in Berlin. "You can't tell the history of the past 50 years in Berlin without the help of intelligence agencies," says Helmut Trotnow, director of the museum...
Slayton shares Bush's sunny, crowd-pleasing disposition. Enthusiasm comes easy to him. Midway through the breakfast, when Jack Oliver, Bush's national finance director, calls to tell the group that the Governor won't be phoning in as promised, Slayton reacts as if this is good news. "Thank you so much for calling in, Jack. It's an honor to be part of the team. We're rocking out here." At the end of the event, he's a whirlwind of handshakes and high-fives. He is halfway out the door when he buttonholes an attendee: "Kiddo...
...hear PVR companies tell it, advertisers should be delighted, since the marriage of TV and online will make possible interactive ads and the ability to purchase products right off the screen. Changing the ads to include contests or other carrots will encourage viewers not to skip them. "Wait till the end of this commercial, and you can win a Ford Explorer," ventures TV analyst Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research...
DAVID VAN BIEMA, TIME's religion writer, this week reports on the fatal shootings at a church in Fort Worth, Texas, and its similarities, from at least one perspective, to other recent tragedies, such as that at Columbine. "While trying to tell the story of this horrible event, we wanted to address the fact that Evangelical Christians seem to make up a larger proportion of victims of mass killings," Van Biema says. "Evangelicals are used to seeing other minorities described as the targets of discrimination and hate crimes. Now they are beginning to wonder, given these recent sets of murders...
Then, with a Kubrick-like air of mystery, Reznor withdrew into the cocoon of his velvet-walled home, and for the next five years was scarcely heard from. Emerging from his gloomy exile, he has a changed perspective and quite a story to tell about his years cloistered away. And he is packing a few surprises, for The Fragile is not just more of the same old musical Sturm und Drang. "The Fragile is a journey out from a place of desperation," says Reznor. "There are threads of optimism...