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...well as selected reporters and writers. He even let in the occasional TV crew. He also shifted the agency's mission from monitoring spies from the former Soviet bloc to tracking terrorists. Two days after 9/11, he told his stricken staff, "Right now, a quarter of a billion Americans wish they had your job, to go after the enemy." When John Negroponte was named the first director of national intelligence (DNI) in 2005, Hayden was a natural choice to become his principal deputy...
...ambitious, clever, confused women she knew. And the guys? Actually, she didn't want them to be so very real. "They were my fantasy men," says Rhimes of Drs. Burke (Isaiah Washington) and Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), two more senior surgeons. "They got to say and do things that I wish men would...
...Swoosh sits atop the page, reminding kids that Nike lets you wish happy birthday to your "Joga Friend" from Sweden. "That goes way beyond somebody saying, 'Oh, yeah, I saw a commercial,'" says Trevor Edwards, Nike's vice president for global brand marketing. "Gone are the days where you can put an ad out and hope people see it. Anyone who doesn't understand the change in the landscape does so at their own peril," he adds. Adidas will unveil a dedicated soccer network on MySpace.com...
...Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8 votes) and John Updike's Rabbit quadrilogy (also 8 votes, from judges using the term "novel" with gymnastic flexibility.) You are hereby saved the trouble of reading all those other, lesser works from the past 25 years - that's service journalism! I just wish they'd done it American Idol style, with Morrison et al. reading a chapter a week on live television and Michiko Kakutani doling out on-the-spot critiques a la Simon Cowell. (Kakutani: "Roth, that was self-indulgent, semi-literate trash! No wonder you never got that trip to Sweden...
...surviving, was palpable. "Five of my friends died in that attack," says Samandi, "I was very sad for them. But then I thought, ?After we die, we all have freedom.' And I want that freedom too." Maybe now, as the conflict heats up again, she has got her wish...