Word: scootering
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...been a comically rococo story, hard to follow, with a changing cast of characters (including a reporter for Time), each of whom does a star turn and then bows out. The star of the moment is I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, who was the Vice President's chief of staff, and is now on trial for perjury...
...coverage of the Scooter Libby trial has been jaunty to the point of slapstick-quite different from the cathedral solemnity when journalists are in the dock. There have been no self-righteous editorials from the New York Times or the Washington Post with titles like "Press Freedom on the Precipice" or "Showdown for Press Freedom" (both real examples from the Times). This isn't hard to explain: I have been loving Scootergate myself and devouring the coverage. It's great to see the ham-handed machinations of the Bush Administration exposed. Yet Libby faces the possibility of years in prison...
...Scooter Libby was to be sacrificed...
THEODORE V. WELLS JR., lawyer for I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, who faces five felony counts of lying to federal investigators, saying that Libby was a fall guy for key White House political adviser Karl Rove...
...traffic jam the results are spectacular: an almost continuous blast of horns, deep and tinny, near and far. The bass of a bus mixes with the thin shrieks of a motor scooter. Add in the noise of rasping truck brakes, the sweet tinkle of bicycles and rickshaws, the wailing Bollywood music pumped out by kids in their new cars, the reverberating bangs and cries of touts beating on the sides of buses for business, the siren of an ambulance vainly trying to push its way through the heaving mass and the general, constant growl of traffic and you have...