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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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Former Sephardic chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef caused a wave of outrage after saying Saturday night that even ultra-Orthodox men who are not studying in yeshiva should not be drafted into the Israel D ...