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...some fun. The President eschewed the high-priced bric-a-brac that usually passes for host gifts between world leaders, and startled Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday by cruising up to the bamboo-fenced Kyoto State Guest House on a Segway-the two-wheeled upright self-propelled scooter of the future that is a popular rental for tourists. Witnesses said Koizumi looked taken aback, but accepted Bush's suggestion that he go for a spin. A Japanese Foreign Ministry official told reporters that Bush said he had given one of the gizmos to his parents, and he thinks...
...hawk, and the indictment of Cheney's chief of staff in an investigation that sprang from a heavy-handed White House effort to discredit an annoying critic. The prosecutor's narrative makes tantalizing reference to one or more conversations Cheney had about the matter with the aide, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, which raises the possibility of a fight for the Vice President's testimony...
...Price on Amazon.com for an inscribed copy of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby's often kinky novel, The Apprentice...
Although I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby pleaded not guilty in the CIA leak scandal last week--and brought on a legal team that specializes in winning high-profile public-integrity cases--the talk in Washington is already whether George W. Bush might pardon the Vice President's former chief of staff if he is convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice or other charges. Republicans involved in the case say the scenario most conducive to a pardon would be a guilty plea by Libby to head off a messy trial in which Dick Cheney's testimony might be sought...
PLEADED NOT GUILTY. I. LEWIS (SCOOTER) LIBBY, 55, ex-chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney; to a five-count indictment, including perjury and obstruction of justice, stemming from statements he made during the investigation into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame; in Washington...