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...Sometimes U.S. investigators have language problems; often foreign governments are not cooperative. Subcommittee Staff Investigator Fred Asselin says that frequently when information from abroad proves hard to find, it is simply not checked: "Every time they can't verify something, they say, 'Let's assume he's telling the truth.' "U.S. military contractors now employ 10,675 émigrés from Communist countries who have been cleared by security agencies or are in the process of being cleared. Among those are 121 Soviet émigrés with top-secret clearance, giving them access to information that the Pentagon says...
...reach the whole world by television," Belgian CARDINAL GODFRIED DANNEELS told Time shortly before the death of the Pope. "You can be very close to everyone, individually." That observation is notable less for its shopworn truth than for the fact that Danneels, a blunt-spoken former liturgy professor on some short lists to be the next Pope, has essentially conceded the degree to which John Paul II's personal magnetism and its electronic deployment have made photo-ready charisma a nearly essential element of the papal job description...
...less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome—have taught us, it is that nobody likes a stickler for the truth. There is no real harm, I suppose, in capitalizing on the myth of the supernaturally brilliant and accomplished Harvardian—so long as we don’t buy into it ourselves...
...truth, though, is that Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old New Yorker, is ultimately too affecting to remain annoying...
...that, but placing them in a museum setting reminds listeners that they are artists, first and foremost, and paints them in just such a light. “Having them perform outside the clubs gives them a different framework,†notes Hirsch, delighting in the obvious truth of his statement...