General David Petraeus, the C.I.A. director who resigned in 2012, after an F.B.I. investigation discovered he was having an extramarital affair with his biographer, said in a video presentation that when he was military commander, in both Iraq and Afghanistan, "my view was that, if you want to get information from a detainee, the best way to do it is become his or her best friend".
An additional 40 advertisers have signed up since the upfront presentations that were held in May, he said.
Presentations, that's what.
Brian Fitzgerald, of the Wall Street Journal, tweeted during the presentation that he was "wowed".
"This doesn't come out as some sort of presentation that he gets to make for free," he said.
When I went to see Shekhar in his office in New Delhi last fall, he walked me through a PowerPoint presentation that he was about to deliver to the cabinet.
At City Hall, the reaction was optimistic, though a statement released by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg simply reflected those parts of the commission's presentation that he had chosen to embrace.
Though Sir John did not say so in so many words, it was clear from his presentation that he believed the Iraq war was a big mistake.
Spence, meanwhile, was moving on to his next event, a Skype presentation that he was to give to a conference in New Zealand in a couple of hours.
That may be strictly accurate, but Sellars' staging seems essentially an elaboration of the concert presentation that he devised for the work's first performance, in Los Angeles in 2012, which Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic brought to the Barbican in March last year.
