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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

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Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


Green Press Initiative
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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"At The Movies"


Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


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Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find
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I'd love to hear what David Gregory has to say about it: whether he was prompted to look into the origins of the trip, or whether he was directly told "If you want to know who sent Ambassador Wilson to Niger, it was his wife, she works there."
by Garrett on Tue Jan 30th, 2007 at 12:32:22 AM EST
Gregory can either corroborate Fleischer or Dickerson or give a 'I can't recall'. I can see the discrepancy between Fleischer's testimony and Dickerson's reporting but Dickerson could just be sloppy or dim. His reporting on his own role (from about a year ago and tonight) is filled with references to not being part of the cool group of journalists that are so involved in the case.

Could it be that Dickerson just wasn't paying attention to Ari or just behind the curve on the entire affair so when Fleishcher name-dropped 'Wilson's wife' it went in one ear and out the other? Gregory can break the tie. If Gregory doesn't weigh in then I'm inclined to believe Ari Fleischer over Dickerson. Ari is the one with his ass on the line for a perjury charge, not Dickerson who seems to be angling for better cocktail party invites.

by joejoejoe on Tue Jan 30th, 2007 at 12:44:59 AM EST
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Yup - That's the way it's lookin' to me too.

I don't know what it is about NBC, but none of them want to talk about their involvement, no matter how minimal it is.

Apparently they have their own "We can't comment on an on-going investigation trial" thing goin' on.

I think I'll side with Ari for now, but I'd be just as happy to be wrong, especially if he's perjured himself.

Misled Into War: A Timeline/DowningStreetMemo.com

by Terre on Tue Jan 30th, 2007 at 12:56:42 AM EST
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The explanation that Dickerson just didn't pick up on it is very reasonable. The most probable explanation, maybe.

But there's also a discrepancy between what Fleischer said today and how Fitz described it to Wells back in January 2006:

We also advise you that we understand that reporter John Dickerson of Time magazine discussed the trip by Mr. Wilson with government officials ... subsequent to Mr. Cooper learning.

This accords well with what Dickerson is saying. Dickerson wasn't on the list, which 5 journalists the government was aware of that knew about Plame before the Novak column, and Gregory wasn't either.

So it's all very messy and contradictory.

I'm very interested in whether Gregory will now say anything about it.

At this point, his sitting silent on what he knows or doesn't know would be taking protection of the cocktail weenies to an amazing degree.

by Garrett on Tue Jan 30th, 2007 at 01:40:35 AM EST
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