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Quaintly illustrated, but with plenty of modern childhood trauma, The Spiderwick Chronicles (Simon & Schuster) are aimed at kids too young for Lemony. Authors Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi even make like Snicket creator Daniel Handler on book tours, playing coy about authorship. Sales magic seems to be afoot, at least; The Field Guide and The Seeing Stone, the first two volumes of the Chronicles, hit the New York Times children's best-seller list the week of their release...
...corporate history. But Vivendi reclaimed the title the next day with its own €23.3 billion loss. Both CEOs recommitted to bold moves to stem their cash crunch. For France Telecom that means a €15 billion cash call. For Vivendi, it means selling assets. And although Fourtou is coy about details, that may include Universal film and music - after all, he must by now be tired of making records...
...John Edwards have each asked Gore for his support, and he has gone out of his way to heap praise on Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt, both of whom are also entertaining the idea of running. Who will Gore back? For the moment, anyway, the former candidate is playing coy. "It's really early to make any kind of accurate assessment of what their strengths and weaknesses, respectively, will turn out to be," he told reporters this week...
...youthful 52, is coy about his plans, and he's got some limbering up to do within his party before he can think of a run. KMT Chair-man Lien Chan stood for election in 2000 and did badly, scoring 23% of the vote, but he might run again. KMT defector James Soong also has presidential ambitions, and he nearly beat Chen in 2000 as a third-party candidate. If Soong runs, Ma's support would be split. "If there are two sets of can-didates," Ma tells TIME, "we will only repeat the defeat of two years...
...That's why Lott had developed a sudden affection for Dean Barkley. "We're offering to be helpful to him in any way we can," the Mississippi senator told TIME with a coy southern drawl. Get Barkley to side with the Republicans on leadership votes and Lott could score a counter-coup on Daschle...