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Sichel’s column, “The Joys of Sex” (Opinion, Oct. 8) relies on a faulty premise, and thus, her conclusions against the conservative preservation of marriage are faulty too. Her idea that fulfillment of sexual desire is an incentive for marriage just doesn’t hold water. I don’t know of and can’t imagine anybody who wants to get married to sanctify his or her sexuality. If such people do exist, they are rare and are not representitive of the American public at large, and so such...
Alex B. Turnbull ’05 is an economics concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...Fitzgerald is trying to find out who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative married to former ambassador Joe Wilson, to several journalists in July 2003. Conservative columnist Robert Novak was the first to disclose Plame?s name in print. In a July 14, 2003 column in the Washington Post, Novak said that two unnamed administration sources had told him that Plame was involved in the CIA?s decision to send her husband to Africa in 2002 to investigate a tip that Iraq had tried to purchase enriched uranium from Niger for its nuclear weapons program. In early...
...provide "full cooperation" with the investigation, and Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said the disclosure of Plame's name could be worse than Watergate "in terms of the real-world implications of it." But nobody has come forward to admit to being a source for Novak's column. Besides Rove, a number of other White House aides, including counsel Alberto Gonzales, have gone before the grand jury...
...Rove's grand jury appearance comes as Fitzgerald is aggressively pursuing the testimony of two other journalists ensnared in the case, Time's Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times. Three days after Novak?s column appeared, Cooper and two colleagues wrote an article for Time Magazine?s Website saying that ?government officials? had told them that Wilson?s wife was a CIA official. Miller was subpoenaed to testify about sources she spoke to while reporting on Wilson, though she never published anything on the subject...