Graduate students at Parsons the New School for Design have been commissioned to create "Pulse Pause," a reading room, which includes a revolving bookcase (by the artist Brandon Nastanski) that leads to a speakeasy.
To mark the anniversary, the People's History Museum in Manchester commissioned actor Colin Smith to read the speech in its entirety.
"The notion that the commission should want to read P.D.B. articles that have nothing to do with Al Qaeda would be a novel suggestion.
After national service in the Parachute Regiment, during which he was sent as an officer cadet to Bangalore and commissioned, Simon arrived, in 1948, to read English at King's College, Cambridge, where he immediately felt at home.
Under the agreement announced this week, some members of the commission will be able to read parts of some briefs.
Just as the election commission's spokesman tried to read out the first batch, commissioners loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo accused him of hijacking the election and actually scrumpled up the results sheet.
After much dickering with the White House, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean, the mild-mannered patrician who succeeded Mr. Kissinger as commission chairman, is allowed to read pre-9/11 copies of the President's Daily Brief, the C.I.A.'s digest of its most important secrets.
Re "Bush Weighing Decision on Release of Classified Documents to Sept. 11 Panel" (news article, Oct. 28): As a family member who fought very hard for the creation of the 9/11 independent commission, I find it upsetting to read the White House spokeswoman's response to press inquiries that the White House believes that it is fully cooperating with the commission.
Members of the commission, who have been allowed to read the August 2001 report but have not been allowed until today to discuss most of its contents, joined unanimously on Thursday in calling for the entire document to be declassified and made available to the public.
There's no question that Senator Macdonald's refusal to read the commission's report is symptomatic of this tl dr world where anything beyond the third bullet point dissolves in a bleary-eyed haze of boredom, and that he should probably resign immediately if he's too incompetent to even skim the thing he's holding a hearing about.
