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…refused to cross the picket line and the dinner had to be moved to a different venue, over the strong objections of the Chief Justice of the State, who was one of the sponsors to the dinner. I had a similar experience in Columbus, Ohio, after I argued an important case on behalf...

…bama just appointed a fucking POLITICIAN to run the CIA!” (He was referring to Leon Panetta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff.) Snowden attributed the origins of his antipathy to US. intelligence to his 2007-9 experiences in the CIA. He later told © Vanity Fair that the...

…st himself." U.S. Const. amend. V. This privilege applies in congressional investigations. In Watkins v. United States, Chief Justice Warren stressed that "the constitutional rights of witnesses will be respected by the Congress as they are in a court of justice.... Witnesses can...

…ny of it to Dan until years later, after both of us had left the army. The result, however, was that Dan became deputy chief-of-staff under Moshe, the latest step in what was beginning to look like a steady rise to the top. But Misha did make a few concessions to Moshe’s preferr...

…ing, as a newly promoted Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He looked first at Raful, then at me, and added: “When I was 20 years you...

… Knesset seats, and now had 44. The Likud lost eight and was left with only 32. That meant that my last three years as chief of staff would be with Rabin back as Prime Minister — and, like Ben-Gurion before him, as Defense Minister as well. He and I had been in touch only occasi...

strongest economy and military, complete with an arsenal of nuclear weapons. The chief threats to Israel are from new technologies — rockets, biological weapons — and demography. Its physical existence is less in doubt than its democratic existence as it continues to rule million...

…ting Muslims was also the theme of a remarkable message that Atiyah sent in 2005 to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the murderous chief of al-Qaeda in Iraq. In this document, made public five years ago by the United States, Attyah warned that fomenting Sunni-Shiite violence (which was Zarq...

… espionage services. I learned when I was interviewing James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s legendary ex-counterintelligence chief of the CIA in the 1970s for my book on deception that intelligence services play by a different set of rules than historians when it comes to their espion...

…undations and then the slower tour will follow. Free Growth What I call free growth theory will probably count as the chief surprise, at least to non-economists, because the argument and the supporting evidence call for a major reversal in tax policy of this and other nations....

…ts, high dividends and which trade at very low multiples, something we reviewed earlier in the week.” Michael Cembalest Chief Investment Officer The material contained herein is intended as a general market commentary. Opinions expressed herein are those of Michael Cembalest and...

…tracted from confusion,” he said. Having watched President Assad operate for years, when I was head of intelligence and chief of staff, I said I was skeptical. I used the image of a bulldog. “It comes into your living room with one aim: to lock on to your ankle. You can throw fir...

…gies, Wow! Nutrition, Mercado Libre, ISmart Foundation.* *Susan **Athey*-- Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Chief Economist, Microsoft. 2007 winner of John Bates. Clark Medal. *Byron **Auguste*-- Director and Head of Social Sector Office, McKinsey & Co. Chm, Hope Str...

…with the recent batch of reports indicating a slowdown in manufacturing and service sector surveys. Michael Cembalest Chief Investment Officer Notes [a] Bundesbank President Weidmann, in response to last week’s package: “By transferring significant risks to the support-giving...

…y’s preeminent white collar defense lawyers. His clients have included former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey, former Tyco general counsel Mark Belnick and film director Roman Polanski, as well as Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein...