Deep Throat: Woodward speaks — At times it reads less like "All The President's Men" and more like Ted Baxter's autobiography: "It all started in a 5000-watt radio station in Fresno, California…" in the Washington Post that goes into pains-taking detail about how he met Mark Felt, but almost none about how he turned what Felt had to tell him, into the backbone of the Watergate coverage he and Carl Bernstein authored. Turns out Woodward met Felt, by chance, in 1970. The rest is history... Woodward explained how he kept in touch with Felt in hopes of advancing his own career and how he phoned Felt at the FBI two days after the Watergate break-in. Felt apparently told him only that the case was going to "heat up" and then Felt then hung up on him. Woodward then talks of Felt's mania about making certain any contact with Woodward was secret and secure.
Insurgency soars — In the weeks before this country went to war in Iraq, we were told that it would become the front-line in the war against terrorism. That has turned out to be the . But it has probably turned out to be true, in a way far different than the administration expected. First, foreign terrorists poured through the broken borders. And now Iraqis themselves, are being recruited or coerced.
Crawling NYC — It is not just a cliché, it's an annoying cliché: You gotta crawl before you can walk. But one man gives the adage new meaning. One New Yorker, former mountain-climbing guide in the lower reaches of Mount Everest and now a cab-driver from Brooklyn, is for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, and to honor the police officers and firefighters who perished on 9/11.
