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...Easy Commute," Richard Lacayo suggested that President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, a member of the Bush inner circle, because Bush had nothing to lose [July 16]. But there could be a more sinister reason. With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the Fifth Amendment in future testimony. This whole affair smells. The Bush Administration has taken politics from the gutter into the sewers...
Forward to 2007. "Now the world is booming, credit demand in Asia is rising, and you don't need the U.S. consumer to be the spender of last resort," says Robert J. Barbera, chief economist at the brokerage firm ITG. The world economy is in its fifth year of nearly 5% growth. But the U.S. is no longer leading. Foreign financial markets are booming and pulling in money. Rising commodity prices are complicating the Fed's inflation-fighting job. As a result, the U.S. consumer can no longer count on a steady flow of low-interest debt...
Since its publication in France in May, Douglas Kennedy's The Woman in the Fifth has sold more than 200,000 copies and dominated best-seller lists. It will enjoy similar success when it appears in a dozen other countries over the next few months. That's an easy prediction to make because a) like the American author's six previous novels, this one is brisk and brainy and b) each of those has sold at least half a million copies...
Just don't look for The Woman in the Fifth here in the U.S.: it does not have a publisher. Kennedy, 52, is an international literary franchise, but he can't get shelf space in the land of his birth. He may be the most successful American novelist America doesn't know...
Daniel Radcliffe deserves special mention for finally—in his fifth crack at the title role—delivering a consistently satisfying performance. His talent has been evident from the beginning of the series, but until this film, he has had both hot and cold moments. No longer. This time he is 100 percent hot (in more ways than...