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Miller's testimony was expected to be the final piece in a puzzle assembled by U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who for 21 months has been investigating how a reference to a CIA operative named Valerie Plame turned up in a column by Robert Novak back in 2003--a potential violation of a 1982 law forbidding the disclosure of a covert CIA operative's identity. Fitzgerald is probing who, if anyone, leaked Plame's name and why. It has been clear from the outset that the White House wasn't happy when Plame's husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson, blew the whistle...
Back in 1990, Robert Oxnam was on top of the world. He had parlayed an academic career as a China scholar into the presidency of the prestigious Asia Society, the leading sponsor of cultural, educational and artistic contact between the U.S. and Asia. And because the late '80s were a time of increasing political unrest in China--culminating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre--Oxnam, now 62, was frequently tapped by political leaders to help them figure out how to deal with the Chinese. He even accompanied former President George H.W. Bush as an on-the-ground adviser...
...known as dissociative identity disorder.) Like Sybil, the character in the 1970s book and TV movie, he had several independent identities--11 in all, he would eventually discover--some old, some young, some male, some female, many of them known to one another but not to the "real" Robert Oxnam...
Unfortunately, the book dwells on Oxnam's personalities in excruciating detail, allowing each to speak with its own voice until the readers' eyes glaze over. It's like listening to a long, very complicated story involving people you have never met and cannot keep straight. There's Tommy and Robert and Wanda and Bobby and the Witch and the Librarian and Eyes, and they all live in the Castle, and ... you get the idea...
...anyone is perfectly situated to study retirement, it's sociologist Robert Weiss. In addition to his stellar academic affiliations (Harvard Medical School; the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston), he is living the life. "My occupational status is retired," explains Weiss, 80. "My way of life is, I work as hard as I can." He talked to TIME's ANDREA SACHS about his new book, The Experience of Retirement (Cornell University), which sums up 15 years of research...