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...through tons of material provided by hundreds of different sources before they can, with luck, piece together a picture of, say, the locking mechanism on a swing-wing fighter ... It is work that occupies tens of thousands of mathematicians and cryptographers, clerks and military analysts, often with the most trivial-seeming tasks. Yet it is work that no major nation feels it can afford to halt ... In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold war. In 1929, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was shocked to learn that the State Department had a cryptographic bureau...
...nearly half a century. Commentators boldly predicted that true two-party politics had finally arrived in Japan. They were wrong. The DPJ has not yet proven to be a political equal of the LDP. It has consistently missed opportunities, failed to define a coherent message, staked its reputation on trivial issues and repeatedly imploded amid avoidable public embarrassments. Seiji Maehara, 43, whom Ozawa now succeeds, was the most recent casualty. He committed political seppuku when a scandalous e-mail introduced by a DPJ member purporting to prove an LDP member's corruption turned out to be fake...
Anyone who needs proof that not all feminists are monsters needs to look no further than the girls in Harvard’s sororities. Many of them are feminists, politically-minded women who do not want to be disrespected for a trivial thing such as gender. They enjoy the company of other women who are their friends, and take a special pride in and have fun being women, which does not go against supporting women’s rights...
...October”), Sutherland has definitively proved in “The Wild” that his sandpapery baritone is appropriate to any role he might undertake. The power of “Jack Bauer’s” performance saves this fun but otherwise trivial computer-animated Disney flick...
Thank God the real talents of this film, like Sutherland, more-or-less direct themselves, otherwise “The Wild” would be too trivial to recommend (despite the terrific animation). William Shatner, taking a break from his deservedly thankless stint on “Boston Legal,” hilariously empowers Kazar, a diabolical carnivorous wildebeest-choreographer, in a nearly show-stopping display of dramatic versatility. But the show remains Sutherland’s in the end, as Kazar appears too infrequently to co-opt the film...