The assessment by James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence, added new detail to similar analyses by American counterterrorism officials in recent months.
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Intelligence Chief Sees Al Qaeda Likely to Continue Fragmenting
Mei-Hua Ru is the director of planning for John C. Liu, the New York City comptroller. She is also the architect of his campaign fund-raising network, which is now under investigation.
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Quiet but Powerful Aide Built Liu’s Fund-Raising Network
Gregg Schwarz frowned as he positioned himself, just so, in front of the wrought iron fence surrounding John Edgar Hoover’s grave, a place he has visited countless times but never before in anger. A retired FBI agent who joined the agency in 1972, the year Hoover died, Schwarz had hired a videographer to film him for YouTube expressing his displeasure with a movie that depicted Hoover as a repressed homosexual. In a dig at Clint Eastwood, the director of “J. Edgar,” Schwarz titled his video response, “Dirty Harry to Filthy Harry.” Read full article > >
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FBI agents upset over movie alleging J. Edgar Hoover was gay
The UK has been subject to a “disturbing” number of cyber attacks, the director of communications intelligence agency GCHQ has said.
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‘Disturbing’ cyber attacks on UK
Personnel Director John Berry said Wednesday that his staff is working “around the clock” to fix bugs in the government’s revamped Web site for job seekers, who will get a three-week reprieve on application deadlines for most positions. “We’re not going to rest until we work through these problems,” the director of the Office of Personnel Management pledged. Read full article > >
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Deadline extended for federal job seekers
KABUL — Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was appointed last year to head a commission trying to broker a peace deal with the Taliban, was killed inside his Kabul home Tuesday afternoon in a suicide bombing, Afghan officials said. The man who killed Rabbani was brought to his house under the pretext of peace talks, Gen. Abdul Zahir, the director of investigations for Kabul police said in a phone interview. The suicide bomber had hid explosives in his turban, Zahir said. Read full article > >
The Cannes Film Festival’s board of directors declared the director Lars von Trier, who has a film in competition, “persona non grata.”
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ArtsBeat: Von Trier Expelled From Cannes Over Nazi Comments
Philip William McKinley, who directed The Boy from Oz, will take over from Julie Taymor as the director of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Taymor was pushed out Wednesday-the Times says it was because of the show’s negative reviews and her refusal to…
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Spider-Man Snags a New Director
Susanne Bier, the director of “In a Better World,” talks about tackling aggression in film, exploring the divide between the West and the Third World and how much an Oscar nomination means to countries like Denmark.
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Carpetbagger: The Director of ‘In a Better World’
Broadway actor Adam Pascal has called for the prosecution of the director of the musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” after a series of accidents, including the hospitalization of an actor who fell at least 20 feet during Monday night’s performance.
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‘Spider-Man’ cancels Wednesday show
Blake Edwards, the director of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Pink Panther films, died on Wednesday at the age of 88. At the time of his death, he was working on two Broadway musicals, one of which was based on the Pink Panther films. He is survived by…
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Director Blake Edwards Dies
Mr. Coppola, the director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” discusses the inspiration for “Twixt Now and Sunrise,” which he is currently shooting.
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ArtsBeat: Coppola Turns a Nightmare Into a Film
The new Superman movie is officially going to suck: Warner Bros. has hired Zack Snyder, the director of all-style-no-substance films 300 and Watchmen, to direct the next Superman film. The studio also considered directors Darren Aronofsky, Ben Affleck,…
Calls for different degrees of murder charges have received the backing of the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, the BBC learns.
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