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...considerably smaller than Gatsby’s 40 acres to be sure, but there’s that blue garden out the back, fenced (white) below a pink tree. Come springtime, awnings are raised, and the men and girls come and go like moths among—as Fitzgerald put it—the champagne and the stars...
...above all things, the story of Jay Gatsby is a tragedy. And to celebrate it is to perhaps only have read the novel halfway through. Gatsby, after all, is murdered at the end, his dreams intact. His life is neither viable nor enviable, Fitzgerald seems to be telling...
...Simon Snide's eviscerating bitchiness, is reacquainting the country with its glorious musical past. One week, everyone must sing a Cole Porter tune; the next, '50s rock 'n roll is the genre. All right, the performers don't take their vocalizing cues from the swingin' precision of Ella Fitzgerald, the hiccupping innocence and intensity of Buddy Holly. Instead, they sound indentured to the wildly mannerist melodramatics of Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton. ("Just sing the damned song," my friend George Grizzard has been known to shout at his TV.) But at least the performers, and the show's mammoth audience...
...Libby's bombshell is on Page 20 of a 39-page legal filing by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of then-CIA agent Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had challenged Administration assertions about Saddam Hussein's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Fitzgerald filed the document Wednesday night...
...Fitzgerald's filing says that Vice President Cheney told Libby "that the President specifically had authorized" him "to disclose certain information" in the National Intelligence Estimate, the government's most authoritative compendium of what was known about Hussein's arsenal in the prelude to war. The White House didn't say anything publicly on Thursday, when the filing became big news after first being disclosed by the New York Sun, but the Republican National Committee published a document that seemed intended to justify what Libby alleged the President did. The document has a section headed, "The President and Vice President...