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Meanwhile, Mary Cheney sits quietly at the center of the storm, friends say. She has told them, according to one, "that she doesn't want to be the poster girl for anybody else's causes."--By Matthew Cooper...
DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, Calif. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training--and famously brilliant at it nonetheless--Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours, but his strap-it-on-and-go approach served him less well in the lunar program, when NASA preferred more by-the-book pilots. He never got a trip to the moon...
...with Bush, then Governor of Texas. Mehlman became field director of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign, in which he focused, as he does in this year's race, on the prosaic mechanics of politics. "I'm not a guru," says Mehlman. "I'm a systems person." --By Matthew Cooper...
...Rove's grand jury appearance comes as Fitzgerald is aggressively pursuing the testimony of two other journalists ensnared in the case, Time's Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times. Three days after Novak?s column appeared, Cooper and two colleagues wrote an article for Time Magazine?s Website saying that ?government officials? had told them that Wilson?s wife was a CIA official. Miller was subpoenaed to testify about sources she spoke to while reporting on Wilson, though she never published anything on the subject...
...District Judge Thomas Hogan found Cooper in contempt of court on Wednesday, for the second time, for refusing to testify. (Cooper?s first contempt citation was rescinded when he gave limited information to prosecutors after a source, Lewis I. ?Scooter? Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, authorized him and several other journalists to discuss their confidential conversations.) Miller was found in contempt last week. She and Cooper, citing the need for journalists to be able to protect their sources, are appealing the rulings jointly, but no decision is expected from the appeals court until mid-to-late...