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...week of congressional hearings, lawmakers struggled to trace the links in the chain of command. The White House, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and top brass in the Pentagon continued to insist that the abuses were confined to the sadistic impulses of the midnight shift at the prison. Senators and Representatives who crowded secure rooms on the Hill to watch nearly 1,800 unpublished pictures flash by, along with about half a dozen grainy videotapes, got a raw eyeful of just how perverse those particular soldiers had been. One of the videos seems to show a G.I. preparing to sodomize...
...Magnetic Fields in 1990, when he was sporadically taking classes at Harvard and writing an astrology column for a Boston gay weekly under the name Madame Cheva. He does not deny that he can be "deliberately unusual." The spelling of his first name comes from an attempt to trace the origin of his junk mail. He is prone to disconcertingly lengthy pauses in the midst of even the simplest sentences. His tiny Manhattan apartment is crammed with more than 90 musical instruments, all of which he can play. He rarely socializes. "I'm not a party type," says Merritt...
...experience with PHC students—limited to a few weeks face-to-face while in Israel attending a conference about terrorism—was extremely cordial. (One of them attempted to trace the precise footsteps of Jesus and a handful of saints. The other attempted to win me over, with grace and charisma, to evangelical Protestantism.) They were both homeschooled, as is a good majority of PHC’s student body, but were surprisingly worldly. Beyond that, they seemed as competent as a typical Harvard student and lacked the smarminess that sometimes comes along with a crimson pedigree...
...several points the CIA could have asked the FBI to trace the two hijackers' activities in the U.S., which would have led to 9/11 pilot Hani Hanjour, who was training with al-Hazmi. The State Department could have put them on the TIPOFF list much earlier. The FAA could have put them on its no-fly list, keeping them off domestic flights...
...even managed to mainstream reluctant celebrity Johnny Depp. Rare in the entertainment world, he has been able to transfer his instinct for the mass audience from movies to television, creating the hit crime-investigation series CSI and a seemingly endless parade of spin-offs and imitators like Without a Trace. All told, Bruckheimer projects have grossed more than $13 billion. He has done it by showing that commercial entertainment can be big and brawny but not entirely brainless. Bruckheimer says he simply makes "what I like." Which is why people cheer Jerry Bruckheimer: he likes what they like. --By Desa...