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Buyers then write two checks. One, at the official, U.N.-approved price, is deposited in a U.N.-monitored Iraqi bank account in New York City. But the 30˘ kickback goes directly to Saddam after deposit in an Iraqi bank account in Jordan or some other location over which the U.N. has no control. During one 10-month period in 2000 and 2001, officials working with the U.N. determined that Iraq had successfully imposed a 30˘-per-bbl. surcharge, netting Saddam $175 million...
Young Daniel Ellsberg (James Spader) is one of the Rand Corp.'s best and brightest, writing papers for the think tank that advocate brinkmanship and "the political uses of madness" in the cold war. In 1964 his work takes him to the Pentagon, where he sees madness in action. He learns that the entire war policy, in effect, is a mess swept under a carpet of inflated enemy body counts. Asked to help write a history of the war effort, he finds that the U.S. has remained hopelessly entangled because no President wanted to be the first U.S. leader...
...What kind of music do you want to make? My music. Comfortable music. The music that rightly expresses where I am at that time and place?unless someone cuts me a check for $80 million and says, 'please write me this type of song...
...same time, Woodruff was searching for a composer to write a work especially for the ART. He found Eckert, an award winning composer and lyricist who had already had several successes in New York and San Francisco and was already very well known in contemporary music circles. The two then worked on expanding Eckert’s original piece, adding a libretto as well as a plot. After reading George Lord’s work about The Odyssey’s impact on modern society, Woodruff noticed the parallels between his own story and Homer’s classic...
Although his second novel, John Henry Days, was even more successful than his first—it was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award—Whitehead still welcomes the opportunity to be able to write with few constraints...