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Though Deputy DCI John McLaughlin said to us that the cumulative output of the Counterterrorist Center (CTC) "dramatically eclipsed" any analysis that could have appeared in a fresh National Intelligence Estimate, he conceded that most of the work of the Center's 30- to 40-person analytic group dealt with collection issues.
Though eclipsed somewhat by Philip Roth's and Saul Bellow's new novels, Cynthia Ozick's latest gets glowing reviews just the same.
Farewell to you, my hopes, my wonted waking dreams;Farewell, sometimes enjoyed joy, eclipsed are thy beams;Farewell, self-pleasing thoughts which quietness brings forth;And farewell, friendship's sacred league, uniting minds of worth.
Chatterbox at first thought this was an adventurous metaphor for the way Blumenthal's story had been eclipsed by the news from Iraq, or the lull in the Flytrap scandal, or by Broder's own attitude.
In other words, the marketplace was already bringing Standard to its knees, and Rockefeller did indeed end up "eclipsed by others"--without government intervention.