Word: thompson
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...driver of his government car and thinks a perfect night on the town is a thick steak at the Palm with his son William Jr. (A second son died of lung disease when he was eight years old.) He's a neighbor of Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Fred Thompson in a downtown condo and visits his wife and two daughters in Chicago on weekends. Unlike some others in the Administration, Daley likes to throw on a tux and socialize with the Washington establishment. A colleague recalls Daley's sunny disposition failing him only once, when a G.O.P. House member...
...British Theatre, this jack-of-all-arts, this next Olivier. By his mid-20s Branagh had earned raves as Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Company, staged and fronted an acclaimed Romeo and Juliet and starred in the miniseries Fortunes of War with his future wife Emma Thompson. It all seems so very long ago when a new Branagh project was an event. Now it is a vague threat, and he is just another performer whose industry overwhelms his genius and sizzle...
...Erector Set away from building the bomb. After all, the general recipe has been widely accessible for decades, with the basics (if not the quantities) even available on the Internet. "This stuff isn't going to help anyone build a nuclear arsenal," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But if it fell into the hands of an established nuclear power, it might hypothetically be able to help them make an existing arsenal smaller, cheaper or more efficient. The way the U.S. builds nuclear weapons is so sophisticated that most other countries wouldn't be able to replicate it, even...
...succeeded. Although Pentagon officials said they were adopting a walk-before-you-run approach to developing the system, critics point out that future tests outlined in the document actually get easier. "They're setting these tests in ways that increase the chances of success," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The Pentagon can certainly claim expert backing for the claim that their earlier tests may have been too complex, but their problem arises in the fact that they claim that even in these complex tests, the system proved capable of distinguishing between warhead and decoys. If that is the case...
...system has been developed, at a cost of some $200 million, to strengthen Israel's northern border in the wake of its withdrawal from Lebanon. "It's more analogous to the Patriot than anything else," explains Thompson, referring to the interceptor missile system deployed in Israel and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War to defend against Iraq's SCUD missiles. But that system had a verifiable kill rate of only 25 percent of incoming missiles, according to a General Accounting Office study, and the new weapon faces a more complex challenge. "The Patriot system was cued by satellites whenever...