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...short list to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General? President Bush has made little secret of his choice: Georgia lawyer Larry Thompson, an African American who worked as Ashcroft?s chief deputy for 21⁄2 years but left because he was feeling ignored and cut out. Bush has twice asked Thompson to travel with him around the country and has even said in public that he will soon be asking Thompson to return to government. Thompson is believed to prefer the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but he?s unlikely to turn down the Attorney General...
...intelligence community is among the hungriest customers of such advanced, large-scale text analytics. The CIA's venture-funding arm, for example, has invested one-third of its $30 million portfolio in data mining and text/visual analytic companies like Inxight. When it comes to tracking terrorist threats, says Jim Thompson, chief scientist for information technologies at the Department of Homeland Security's newly created National Visualization and Analytics Center, high-volume text analytics "has saved people's lives." That's hardly child's play...
Sorry, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson...
...spirit: The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore H. White (Pocket Books; 481 pages) The classic election read - a riveting account of one of the closest contests in U.S. history, and a manual for understanding American politics. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson (Flamingo; 480 pages) Thompson's gonzo take on Nixon's second campaign set the style for a generation of young reporters. The Right Nation: Why America is Different, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (Allen Lane; 450 pages) A deeply reported, dispassionate guide to the U.S.'s distinctively conservative politics...
...trio of Beethoven’s chamber works will be performed including the Kreutzer string quintet. The featured performers are clarinetist Thomas Hill, violinists Ida Levin and Harumi Rhodes, violists Marcus Thompson and Jonathan Vinocour, cellist Ronald Thomas and pianist Mihae Lee. Sanders Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $46/$37/$26/$17. Harvard Box Office...