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  Anthony Shaffer
Anthony Shaffer (born 1926) is a British dramatist.
He was born in Liverpool and is the twin brother of the better-known Peter Shaffer.
Anthony Shaffer's most notable work is the play Sleuth (1970).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anthony_Shaffer.html   (46 words)

  
  Anthony Shaffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthony Joshua Shaffer, (May 15, 1926 – November 6, 2001), was a English dramatist.
He was born in Liverpool and is the twin brother of the better-known Peter Shaffer.
Shaffer also wrote the screenplay of the adapted film version of the play.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Shaffer   (134 words)

  
 Obituary: Anthony Shaffer | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
It is an ideal vehicle for actors growing into a certain age and gravitas - Anthony Quayle was the first Wyke, and Peter Bowles was grappling with the part by the end of the 1990s - and with its smart youth versus wily, malevolent old age theme, it both teases and reassures.
Shaffer was the twin of that other playwright, Sir Peter Shaffer, and the two men's careers could blur in the public consciousness.
By 1955, Shaffer had concluded that the money was inadequate, so he switched to advertising copywriting with the company that dominated the cinema programme intervals in the 1950s, Pearl and Dean.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,589481,00.html   (921 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Anthony Shaffer
Anthony Joshua Shaffer, (May 15, 1926 –; November 6, 2001), was a English dramatist.
Peter Shaffer (born May 15, 1926) is a British dramatist, author of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.
Anthony Shaffer's most notable work is the play Sleuth (1970).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anthony-Shaffer   (398 words)

  
 Anthony Shaffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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Shaffer: Acclaimed Amadeus playwright A profile of Peter Shaffer, on the eve of his being knighted as part of the New Year Honours List for 2000.
Shaffer and Shaffer General practice with offices in Madison and Charleston.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Anthony_Shaffer.html   (339 words)

  
 My Way News
Shaffer, who is supported by a retired colonel who has praised his work, says those challenging the medal do not have firsthand knowledge of his actions.
Shaffer says he showed his government credentials during two incidents in 1990, when he was drunk, and 1996, when he was pulled over by police.
Shaffer said he was providing briefings to higher-ups on projects even his direct superiors did not know about, and he received superior review ratings for that time.
apnews.myway.com /article/20050930/D8CUM5PG3.html   (654 words)

  
 Pentagon revokes 9/11 officer's clearance - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Anthony Shaffer, 42, include obtaining a service medal under false pretenses, improperly flashing military identification while drunk and stealing pens, according to military paperwork shown by his attorney to The Associated Press.
Shaffer was one of five witnesses the Pentagon ordered not to appear Sept. 21 before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the unit's findings.
Shaffer has said he tried three times to meet with the FBI to convey the Able Danger unit's findings before Sept. 11, but was ordered not to by military attorneys.
www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/30/able_danger_officers_clearance_revoked?mode=PF   (656 words)

  
 Anthony Shaffer, LTC, USAR | Center for Advanced Defense Studies
Anthony Shaffer is a senior operations officer and Military Operations Training Course (MOTC) graduate with over 23 years of field experience.
Shaffer was awarded the Bronze Star for the first of his two combat tours to Afghanistan.
Shaffer is a 1986 graduate of Wright State University, where he was awarded a BA in Political Science and Environmental Studies.
www.c4ads.org /anthony.shaffer   (530 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | Equus | Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer is known for the quality of his plays and the variety of their subject matter.
Shaffer was born in Liverpool, England, in 1926.
Shaffer was educated at Cambridge, and his early career included stints as a coal miner, an assistant at the New York Public Library, and an editor for a firm of music publishers.
www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/equus.html   (1627 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Wives, daughters of British playwright fight off mistress's claim on will
Shaffer, whose award-winning thriller "Sleuth" was made into a film starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, died in London on Nov. 6, 2001, aged 75.
Shaffer's mistress, Jo Capece Minutolo, argued Shaffer was living in England when he died, and she could therefore claim a share of his estate under British law, even thought Shaffer's 1999 will did not mention her.
The judge said Shaffer had considered his home to be at Karnak, the estate in tropical Queensland where he and Cilento had built their matrimonial "dream home" and established a theater, the Karnak Playhouse.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040209-0818-britain-shafferestate.html   (361 words)

  
 GSN Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Shaffer said Able Danger was begun in 1999 at the request of General Hugh Shelton, then the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and under the direct supervision of General Pete Schoomaker, then the commander of the Special Operations Command (SOCOM), based in Tampa, FL.
Shaffer told GSN that one key to Able Danger’s success in identifying suspected terrorists was its willingness to buy information from brokers that identified visits by individuals to specific mosques located around the world.
Shaffer also told GSN that the ultimate goal that he and his Able Danger colleagues are pursuing is the re-establishment of a similar data mining capability, in a newly-formed program the military is calling Able Providence.
www.gsnmagazine.com /sep_05/shaffer_interview.html   (10352 words)

  
 Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer on CNN
SHAFFER: I was tasked by the Navy to look at bringing back some of the aspects regarding the technology of the Able Danger capability earlier this year.
SHAFFER: For a couple of different reasons, I’m not going — I’m not going to get into very specifics for this, because, again, we’re trying to figure out a way that we can continue to do this.
SHAFFER: The sourcing, I’ve covered the sourcing, which is essentially open source.
decision08.net /2005/08/17/lt-col-anthony-shaffer-on-cnn   (1119 words)

  
 Colonel: 9/11 warning ignored / Military team IDd hijack leader, but info refused, he says
Shaffer said that his role in Able Danger was as the program's liaison with the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, and that he was not an intelligence analyst.
Shaffer's lawyer, Mark Zaid, said he was concerned that Shaffer was facing retaliation from the Defense Department, first for having talked to the Sept.
Shaffer said he had decided to allow his name to be used in news accounts in part because of his frustration with the statement issued last week by the commission leaders, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/17/MNGS8E8T471.DTL   (835 words)

  
 Anthony Shaffer
Anthony Shaffer will also later describe the warning in serious terms, claiming that the Able Danger team he was on determined that Yemen was one of the three most dangerous locations for al-Qaeda activity in the world (see Late September 2000).
Anthony Shaffer, is attended by Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Richard Schiefren, an attorney at DOD; and Stephen Cambone, Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Anthony Shaffer, is attended by Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Richard Schiffrin, an attorney at DOD; and Stephen Cambone, Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=anthony_shaffer   (5640 words)

  
 Anthony Shaffer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Anthony Joshua Shaffer, (May 15 1926 – November 6 2001), was a (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (Someone who writes plays) dramatist.
He was born in (A large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports) Liverpool and is the twin brother of the better-known (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Shaffer) Peter Shaffer.
Anthony Shaffer's most notable work is the play (A detective who follows a trail) Sleuth (1970).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anthony_shaffer.htm   (190 words)

  
 Playbill News: Sleuth Playwright Anthony Shaffer Is Dead at 75
Shaffer was known primarily as mystery-genre writer who penned the screenplays to Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" and a number of Agatha Christie-based films, and would later adapt Sleuth, a London and Broadway hit, into a screenplay for the film that starred Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.
Shaffer was born in Liverpool in 1926 and was educated at St. Paul's and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Shaffer was working on a stage version of his 1973 screenplay, "The Wicker Man," about the disappearance of a child on a Scottish island and the discovery of a modern pagan society there.
www.playbill.com /news/article/63163.html   (610 words)

  
 Peter Shaffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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Equus: Human Conflicts and the Trinity A look at Peter Shaffer's provocative play from a Christian theological perspective.
Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus on stage in London's West End Old Vic Theatre Extracts from the original reviews of 'Amadeus'.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Peter_Shaffer.html   (516 words)

  
 Anthony Shaffer - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Hardy and Shaffer had previously set up a television production company in the United States called 'Hardy, Shaffer & Associates'.
Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 13, Chapter 11)
Peter and Anthony Shaffer, a reference guide (A Reference guide to literature)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /anthony_shaffer.htm   (161 words)

  
 Peter Shaffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Peter Shaffer and his twin brother Anthony were born on May 15, 1926, in Liverpool, England, where Shaffer later attended prep school.
Shaffer found coal mining an arduous occupation which, he states, gave him great sympathy for the way many people are forced to spend their lives.
Shaffer's most recent stage play was The Gift of the Gorgon, produced in London in 1992, the same year in which he won the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre.
www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2000/equus/Shaffer.html   (622 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - UK - The wives, the mistress and a fight for fortune of Wicker Man author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
THE wives and daughters of the award-winning playwright Anthony Shaffer yesterday fought off an attempt by his secret mistress to claim a share of his multi-million-pound estate.
The family of Shaffer, whose thriller Sleuth was made into a film starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, and whose horror The Wicker Man starring Edward Woodward and Britt Ekland became a cult film, have previously claimed that Ms Minutolo was never his lover.
Shaffer never applied for Australian citizenship - his wife said he was put off by the "pomp and circumstance" - although he voted in the elections, paid tax there and his bank accounts and credit cards were Australian.
news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=162042004   (862 words)

  
 CNN.com - Officer: 9/11 panel didn't receive key information - Aug 17, 2005
Anthony Shaffer said he worked this year with Rep. Curt Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, and they determined "there was a significant amount of information that was totally deleted or not provided to the 9/11 commissioners."
Shaffer declined to be specific about what kind of documents linked Atta to al Qaeda, saying intelligence units continue to use such processes.
Shaffer told CNN he had not come forward earlier because he believed there may have been a classified addendum to the commission's report or there might be some other reason why the information was not disclosed to the public.
www.cnn.com /2005/POLITICS/08/17/sept.11.hijackers   (879 words)

  
 Schottenstein Zox & Dunn - Anthony D Shaffer
Shaffer concentrates his practice in the health law and corporate law practice areas by helping healthcare and business clients develop legal and strategic solutions during all phases of their business life cycle.
Shaffer provides counsel to partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations, and sole proprietorships in a wide variety of areas such as mergers, acquisitions, governance, day-to-day management, business financing, sales of assets and regulatory compliance.
Shaffer has also served as an in-house general counsel and chief legal officer of a major manufacturing and retail corporation located in central Ohio.
www.szd.com /people/bio.php?id=145&t=1   (283 words)

  
 Rep. Curt Weldon: DIA lies, destroys reputations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
He is LTC Anthony Shaffer, a 23-year defense intelligence officer, whom the DIA has sought to smear.
"Shaffer is being abused and used as a scapegoat.
Shaffer showed him "a disk in his office with information about al Qaeda and Mohammed Atta." The Deputy Director halted the conversation, informing Shaffer that he did not want to see the data.
www.canadafreepress.com /2005/swank102105.htm   (1372 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Pentagon revokes clearance of 'Able Danger' officer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
WASHINGTON (AP) — An officer who has claimed that a classified military unit identified four Sept. 11 hijackers before the 2001 attacks is facing Pentagon accusations of breaking numerous rules, charges his lawyer suggests are aimed at undermining his credibility.
Col. Anthony Shaffer, a reserve officer in the U.S. Army, at a recent hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Anthony Shaffer, 42, include obtaining a service medal under false pretenses, improperly flashing military identification while drunk and stealing pens, according to paperwork from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency shown by his attorney to The Associated Press.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-09-30-pentagon-shaffer_x.htm   (791 words)

  
 LtCol Anthony Shaffer - Whistleblower Retaliation?
Anthony Shaffer, Curt Weldon’s first public witness backing his allegations regarding Able Danger recently testified on February 14, 2005 [1], in front of The House Government Reform Committee; Subcommittee on National Security’s whistleblower retaliation investigation.
Shaffer claimed he had suffered the “Removal of Security Clearance in Retaliation for Protected Disclosures of Able Danger.” The two protected statments he mentioned were to the 911 Committee in 2003, and to Congressman Curt Weldon in 2004.
Shaffer’s attorney is Mark Zaid, a recognized and respected DC barrister, who often defends government whistle blowers.
www.gnn.tv /blogs/13182/LtCol_Anthony_Shaffer_Whistleblower_Retaliation   (1084 words)

  
 Exit mistress, empty-handed - National - www.smh.com.au
The main players in the drama are his widow, the actor Diane Cilento, 70, and his secret mistress, Jo Capece Minutolo, 63, who this week failed in her legal claim for part of the estate.
Although he died in London, Shaffer was really domiciled in Australia, which meant his estate was not subject to claims by "dependants".
Shaffer, writer of the stage and film hit Sleuth, married Cilento, his third wife, at Karnak in 1985, but maintained a London flat and - later - his London mistress.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/10/1076388367987.html   (502 words)

  
 Anthony Shaffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Anthony Shaffer's most notable work is the Sleuth (1970).
The middle aged Andrew Wyke, a successful author of English country house murder mysteries, is an obsessive player of games, games of deductive logic, inductive logic, semantics, mathematics, hypnosis, and prestidigitation.
Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students"
www.freeglossary.com /Anthony_Shaffer   (221 words)

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