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...author Sophie Kinsella is one of the reigning stars in chick-lit, the popular wish-fulfillment novels now being written and marketed for young women. Her witty new book, The Undomestic Goddess (Dial), is the story of Samantha Sweeting, a BlackBerry-toting workaholic London lawyer on the verge of making partner in her prestigious firm. Fate intervenes, and Samantha suddenly finds herself a housekeeper with not a lick of domestic talent, hurtling into a new romance. We spoke with the author by phone in London, just before a second set of bombings hit the city Thursday...
...surprising line of questioning had to do with, of all things, welfare reform. The prosecutor asked if I had ever called Mr. Rove about the topic of welfare reform. Just the day before my grand jury testimony Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, had told journalists that when I telephoned Rove that July, it was about welfare reform and that I suddenly switched topics to the Wilson matter. After my grand jury appearance, I did go back and review my e-mails from that week, and it seems as if I was, at the beginning of the week, hoping to publish...
...prosecution's key piece of evidence is available to anyone with an Internet connection. It's an explicit 26-minute video (widely believed to be one of the most bootlegged in history) called R. Kelly Exposed. Once you've seen the visuals--their authenticity is questioned by Kelly's lawyer, though the action takes place in a wood-paneled room that strongly resembles one in Kelly's house--it's difficult to listen to a Kelly song without feeling as if you ought to register at the local precinct...
...insisted Rove's surrogates last week when asked to explain why he was talking about a covert operative at all. His warning to Cooper, Rove's lawyer Robert Luskin told TIME, was not meant to encourage Cooper to write about Plame; it was meant to deter him from writing credulously about Wilson or at least from lending weight to charges that Cheney's office had deliberately ignored Wilson's findings. "What he was trying to do was discourage Cooper from printing allegations about the Vice President that were going to be proven false," Luskin says. While it was true that...
...over the past decade, only to see their holdings nationalized. The drillers characterize the government's strategy as "confiscate now, compensate later," and those who have been paid insist they have not been given enough. In May and June, police arrested nine investors for protesting, and a Beijing-based lawyer was detained after filing a lawsuit against the Shaanxi provincial government on the investors' behalf. "We have not launched a political movement," says a peasant prospector named Zhao Suiling, who says he was compensated at 20? on the dollar for his oil wells. "We only want to protect our businesses...