Word: columnists
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...House but will have to regain the unfettered powers he once held. "The President's relationship with Karl has been damaged over the scandal," a Bush friend says. A source close to Rove says when Bush asked Rove whether he was responsible for leaking Plame's CIA identity to columnist Robert Novak, Rove told him "absolutely not." While that may have been strictly true, Fitzgerald's indictment suggests that Rove did at least discuss Wilson's wife with Novak, as he did with TIME's Matthew Cooper. As for Cheney, who retained Libby as the scandal unfolded...
...then there are those who get into performing without really intending to. Tom Richards, 67, is a retired newspaper reporter and columnist in Appleton, Wis. Five years ago, he was writing an article on what it's like to be a stand-up comedian, and the local Skyline Comedy Café allowed him a few minutes of stage time. "I got some laughs, to my amazement, despite my nerves," Richards says. "I became addicted." Sample gag: "I told my wife that I wanted to let my hair grow into a ponytail. She said, 'If you do that, I'll divorce...
...story begins with a mystery man who was dissing the Bush team from somewhere within the government. In May 2003, shortly after New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof first wrote about a secret CIA mission to Africa by an unnamed U.S. ambassador to assess suggestions by Cheney's office that Iraq had tried to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger, Libby asked Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman to go digging for more information on the mission. It was not an idle inquiry: the 2002 trip, taken by a former U.S. ambassador to Gabon, Joseph Wilson, had turned up no evidence that...
Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. Jones, who won a Pulitzer in 1987, began the evening by speaking about Nyhan, the prize’s sponsor, and his legacy. Jones recalled Nyhan, a Boston Globe columnist, as someone who loved to investigate political power and its abuse, and as someone who could cut directly to the heart of political matters...
Dowd further dives into subjects ranging from the over-prescription of antidepressants to lying politicos to her experience as a reporter and columnist. What is it, she asks, that has brought women back to their pre-feminist roots—or did the feminist movement itself create the current paradigm? How can a modern woman cope with the conflicting demands of biology, social pressure, and ambition? Dowd may not propose any real solutions, but she does lay out the conundrum with panache, pace, and page-turning...