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...most tangled and agonizing of the Spectator trysts involves its publisher, a 44-year-old American named Kimberly Quinn, and British Home Secretary David Blunkett, 57, the country's chief law-enforcement officer and one of its most powerful men. He admits that "many people will be bewildered and confused" by the tale. The basic outline of what happened is clear. Blunkett and Quinn took up together in 2001, 11 years after the breakup of his first marriage, but less than three months after her (second) marriage, to Stephen Quinn, 60, the publishing director of British Vogue. Quinn reversed...
...case is not the only sign that Blunkett's judgment has been affected by his feelings for his lover. There is speculation in Westminster that the original kiss-and-tell story that made the affair public was planted by the Home Secretary himself, with the apparent goal of getting Quinn to come back to him. Now she has claimed that he misused his office to help her when they were lovers, putting his reputation and job on the line...
...Blunkett has already repaid $340 for free rail travel enjoyed by Quinn, which was was meant to be reserved for M.P.s' spouses. In another incident, he sent two senior Home Office civil servants to a meeting between Quinn and her lawyers when news of the affair was about to break. Most damaging, he is alleged to have fast-tracked the visa renewal of the Quinns' former nanny, though the evidence is inconclusive and he strenuously denies it; the matter is now being officially investigated. Last week Quinn was in the hospital, dehydrated and vomiting, having apparently collapsed under the strain...
...stars must have been in alignment that day. A minor blogging frenzy was kicked off in June when Bill Clinton, while being interviewed about his new book on CNN, happened to be seated in front of a shelved copy of Sextrology?a sizzling zodiac guide by Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox, the pen names of an astrologer couple from New York City's West Village. (One blogger joked that the interview must have been held in Clinton's office.) It was a key moment in the charmed life of this amusing study of the sexual character of zodiac signs...
...domestic audience. Nuclear arms remain Moscow's lone claim to superpower status, they note, and refreshing Russia's aging nuclear force would be a way of trying to hang on to that position. "Their missile won't work," says a Pentagon adviser, "and neither does our shield." --By Paul Quinn-Judge. With reporting by Mark Thompson