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...estate in Coventry where he grew up: its fish-and-chip shops and social clubs, its surrounding wet woods and backways. People and cars are missing, the light is fading and summer never comes. In Scenes from the Passion: The Fall a line of derelict garages bisects the picture, beneath a band of brooding trees and a lemon sky, and its image is repeated in the dank surface water. In his youth, he found that the kind of art contained in books - "drawings of dead Jesus, sliced lemons and bottles of wine" - had "little connection with growing...
...impatient person, and I get more satisfaction from seeing things get done than I do about philosophizing or building sand castles. Many people regard execution as detail work that's beneath the dignity of a business leader. That's wrong. It's a leader's most important...
...Federal Government in more than 50 years, the proposal put before Bush was drafted in just over a month. An official describes the clandestine enterprise as "sort of like the Manhattan Project," and paranoia about leaks ran so high that meetings were moved to the secure bunker beneath the White House where senior officials had taken cover on Sept. 11. Bush intended to roll out the plan in July, but disclosures about FBI and CIA lapses ratcheted up the pressure to go public now. Says a White House official: "Was the attitude sooner rather than later, more rather than less...
...city enables their excesses, but at the book's most chilling moments it finds ways to remind them of the consequences of that excess in a way that an American city never could. When Gurney peeks below that cute cobblestoned surface, he finds the ravages of communism, and beneath them, the horrors of the Holocaust...
...unenviable ubiquity. Now, as the hearings into intelligence failures continue on Capitol Hill, Mueller is under a very large microscope in a very public place. And everyone who's got anything negative to say about U.S. intelligence gathering wants to be sure that Mueller, who nods soberly from beneath hooded, fatigue-darkened eyes, hears every last word...