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...never occurred to anybody in the basement of the Louvre that morning that Sheetal Mafatlal, 33, was one of India's biggest luxury dealmakers. Although Mafatlal could easily afford to scoop up gowns by the gross, she wasn't shopping for herself. She was on a fact-finding mission as a prelude to opening the first Valentino store in India, in partnership with Valentino Fashion Group SpA, in New Delhi's five-star Shangri-La hotel. Valentino is the first of several Western designers introduced into India by MLP (Mafatlal Luxury Private), the company Mafatlal heads...
...Suri Cruise. (I'm told the newscast was also the debut of some lady from the Today show.) Since Suri's birth in April, she had not been seen, spurring a flood of rumors. Was she a hoax? Sick? An alien? Then the House of Cronkite broke its big scoop by flashing the exclusive Vanity Fair photos, with the adorable, ebony-maned head of what even die-hard Internet rumormongers had to concede was Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' actual, intact, human baby...
...indication of lingering Administration defensiveness over her appointment--is that heavyweights like Rice and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten praised Townsend in phone calls to TIME arranged by her office. The President, says Bolten, "likes her competence, her crispness and her ability to give him the straight scoop." Bush has entrusted her with, among other things, the task of implementing sweeping recommendations that a presidential commission made last year for reforming the intelligence community. And he named Townsend the head of a team that tracked last month's British arrests of London bomb-plot suspects...
...Metropolitan Police [an error occurred while processing this directive] arrested journalist Clive Goodman, chief royal correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According to Scotland Yard, Goodman's nine alleged offenses include conspiracy to "intercept communications"; two other men were also arrested. Hacking into mobile-phone answering services, a practice generally referred to as "phone-screwing," has become a well-known technique used by British tabloids. Staffers at Clarence House...
...Smoking Gun Continues to document interesting news (sample headline: "Six Skulls Found in Strippers Home") and get the occasional big scoop, like outing writer James Frey