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RIELLE HUNTER, mistress to former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, in her first interview about the affair...
Three things and three things alone differentiate Rogers from social secretaries past: her race, her chic, and her bungling of the Salahis affair. None of these three traits justify the grossly excessive media coverage that she has received, and this ailment, this risibly misguided belief that ethnicity and fashion sense can render even the White House social secretary relevant, plagued not only the Washington media establishment but also Rogers herself...
Competing at skipper for Harvard throughout the two-day affair were juniors Alan Palmer, Teddy Himler, and Stokes, along with sophomore Brendan Kopp. Senior Michelle Konstadt, junior Megan Wareham, and freshman Alma Lafler took care of the Crimson’s crewing duties in the Washington Sailing Marin Lagoon, which posed an unexpected additional challenge for some teams...
While there's been feverish speculation in the German media about the Pope's role in the Father H affair, Dr. Huth says he thinks that Archbishop Ratzinger did not know about the case, simply because it seems unlikely that he'd be aware of everything that happened in his diocese. But the psychiatrist criticised church officials for turning a blind eye to the priest's history of abuse by not launching a thorough investigation. "Senior figures in the Catholic Church covered up the allegations of abuse in order to protect Father H and the church's image," Dr. Huth...
...good chunk of Courage and Consequence is taken up by the Joseph Wilson affair and the outing of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent - an allotment that is justified from Rove's point of view, since he spent a good chunk of the Bush Administration fighting off an indictment in the case. In July 2003, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times disputing Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger. There was some exaggeration involved, but the bottom line was accurate. There was no uranium deal; Saddam didn...