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...week in Canberra, P.M. John Howard delivered a talk called "Building Prosperity: The Challenge of Economic Management." Same night, same city, Rudd gave a speech on "Prosperity Beyond the Mining Boom" to a business lobby group. In the printed drafts, Rudd's speech is more tightly spaced and a page longer than Howard's-and bears an Australian coat of arms twice as large as the P.M.'s. Talk about a shadow. Whatever John can do, Kevin can do better...
...Higher Power of Lucky”—this year’s Newbery Medal-winning children’s book—was banned in many school libraries across the country. Apparently, librarians object because the author employs a word on the first page considered inappropriate for its young audience: “scrotum.” According to the New York Times, the book reads, “Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much...
...Lost Boys of Sudan. And while Eggers’ name may be on the front of the book, the voice between the covers is unmistakably Deng’s.It is a surprising move for Eggers, a writer who has made a career out of writing himself all over the page, first in his breakout memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” and then in his debut novel, “You Shall Know Our Velocity!”In “What is the What,” Eggers is nowhere...
...workmanlike site, featuring the same photograph of the former undersecretary of defense for policy that the Pentagon used in his official bio before he left in 2005. "The 'Bush lied, people died' argument is not true," he asserts in bold-faced type at the top of his home page. He notes the Feb. 7 release of a Pentagon inspector general's report that has "spawned a lot of inaccurate commentary by politicians and misreporting by journalists...
...calls him a "patriot" who "cares only about what is best for the United States." The site includes news articles and documents pertaining to Feith's Pentagon tenure. And there's a tempting link entitled "Media Myths vs. Facts." Unfortunately, clicking that link brings you to a bare page with a forlorn message: "More information coming soon...