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...come out swinging. Tenet acknowledged that the CIA "made mistakes" and warned that it would take an additional five years to rebuild the clandestine service. In what is perhaps the closest anyone in the Bush Administration has come to a formal acknowledgment of responsibility, Tenet said, "We all understood bin Laden's attempt to strike the homeland, but we never translated this knowledge into an effective defense of the country." But Cofer Black, head of the CIA's clandestine service who holds the storied title of director for operations, was unbowed. "I've heard people say this country wasn...
...extricate the hostages through secret talks, and denied reports it was paying a ransom. But when Berlusconi crowed that, with the imminent departure of Spanish troops from Iraq, Italy was now Washington 's closest ally on the Continent, an Iraqi mediator declared his remarks "inopportune" but said he understood the men were still alive. About 50 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq in the past month, as insurgents try to scare away contractors, aid workers and other civilians vital to reconstruction. There's no fixed pattern in how the captives are treated. A Swiss couple was released unharmed last week...
Indeed, most of the work shown remains incomprehensible unless understood as a solution to a problem given in the design studio. Yet a basic fault of the exhibition is that the explanations of most of the problems are couched in such artsy jargon that they are indecipherable. For example, pieces of cardboard tubing cut from a big, cylindrical roll and reassembled into different forms could perhaps be justified as a design experiment. But to state the problem as the "re-formation of a rigidly geometrical object into a unified structure, which visually interrelates all active elements," gives the cardboard forms...
...singers is already fading, however, and the pair will certainly be given at least a few chances to redeem themselves. A commercial or critical failure used to be the first sign of the apocalypse in a singer or movie star’s career, but these days it is understood that both mortals and the super-famous make mistakes. As a result, fame is no longer just about the quality of a performer’s latest film or album—it’s also about how that product seems to play into a singer or actor?...
...more help that I’d been in Washington than at Harvard,” says O’Mary. “It was a sense that I was someone who understood his world and yet also understood Harvard...