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...State Richard Armitage, not Vice President Dick Cheney, leaked the undercover identity of Valerie Plame. If Cheney was innocent the entire time, why did Libby have to lie to protect him? Could something even more damaging emerge upon further investigation? With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the Fifth Amendment in future testimony. With a pardon, he could not. This whole affair smells. The Bush Administration has taken politics from the gutter into the sewers. Stephen H. Weentland, HOUSTON...
...thrived overseas, selling 350,000 copies in the U.K. alone. Kennedy has the gift--or perhaps curse--of transcending genres. His thrillers are romantic, his romances thrilling, and all of them bristle with literary references and big questions about love and life. Consider The Woman in the Fifth. Harry Ricks, an American academic, loses his job and his marriage over a disastrous fling with a student. He flees to Paris and ends up living and working illegally in a squalid corner of the immigrant-filled 10th arrondissement. He meets a beautiful woman, but she will see him only...
...setting is no coincidence. Kennedy's Paris flat is not far from the fifth, he is fluent in French, and last year he was made a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His novel tries "to look at Paris in a different way," he says, "through the eyes of immigrants who live there but seldom come in contact with white French natives...
...talk he could not make himself understood, so after a while he stopped trying. He was one of 10 children, born to parents too poor to pay for the treatment he needed, and of course there was no insurance. Embarrassed by his condition, Lowe dropped out of school in fifth grade without learning to read or write, and eventually followed his father into the mines - and still couldn't afford treatment. Twenty-three years ago he was partially paralyzed in a mining accident and could no longer perform manual labor. That didn't leave him many options...
...concern. Rising gas prices kept inflation at 2.4% in June, above the government target of 2% and the E.U. average of 2.1%. Desperate to keep a lid on prices, the Bank of England pushed up interest rates earlier this month to 5.75%, a six-year-high and the fifth rise in less than a year. Economists expect the Bank to further nudge up rates to 6% in the coming months...