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...told the grand jury--and we went over this in microscopic, excruciating detail, which may someday prove relevant--I recall calling Rove from my office at TIME magazine through the White House switchboard and being transferred to his office. I believe a woman answered the phone and said words to the effect that Rove wasn't there or was busy before going on vacation. But then, I recall, she said something like, "Hang on," and I was transferred to him. I recall saying something like, "I'm writing about Wilson," before he interjected...
...simultaneously, eliciting sympathy from the faithful and grudging admiration--for hanging in there, for sticking to his guns--from the skeptical. If you think it doesn't work, ask Tom DeLay (still in Congress amid an ethics scandal), Bill O'Reilly (still on the air after a scandal involving phone sex and a loofah) or Barry Bonds (who will be welcomed back by the San Francisco Giants as soon as his knee is better, despite the steroid scandal...
...suite of 15 experimental tools such as Web Accelerator, which speeds up surfing; Ride Finder, a way to locate taxis; and Froogle Wireless, for comparing product prices on your cell phone...
...cigarette pinched between index finger and thumb, Liu looks like any other small-fry entrepreneur in China's hinterland. Yet for two reasons, he is different. First, his business is oil. Second, he's running from the police. Liu, who declines to reveal his full name, changes his cell-phone number weekly and won't pass two nights in the same bed. His fugitive life is shared by dozens of other wildcat oilmen in northern China's Shaanxi province, where independent drillers are fighting for compensation after the government seized their wells and detained several of those who complained...
Chapter one deals with Kelly’s character waking up in a mysterious woman’s home and getting put in the closet when her husband arrives. Unfortunately, the narrator’s phone rings and alerts the husband to his presence. Soon, the action heats up, and the final word of each line is repeated in a whisper, echoed to create a chilling effect: “He looks at the closet (closet)/I pull out my berretta (berretta)/He walks up to the closet (closet)/He’s close up to the closet (closet...