“What began as a noise disturbance complaint at a Utah County motel earlier this month may land three U.S. Secret Service agents in criminal court on allegations of misconduct involving a party with underage girls and alcohol,” Wintersports reports. “Provo police and the Secret Service confirmed Thursday night that three out-of-state agents have been placed on administrative leave pending a criminal investigation.” According to Mike Mower, assistant to the Provo

An amusing battle story, courtesy of The Age and Gulf News: “Tom Johnson, an intrepid 42-year-old distance runner from the United States, achieved the rare feat of winning a ‘man versus horse’ endurance race over 80 gruelling kilometres in the United Arab Emirates, a newspaper reported today. “Johnson won by just 10 seconds over the purebred Arabian Al Barraq, ridden by Jennifer Nice, staged yesterday at the predominantly hilly Al

From U.S. News & World Report’s “Washington Whispers” pages: Will somebody give President Bush’s speechwriter, Mike Gerson, a raise? What, you haven’t noticed that his boss, once belittled as ‘Dumya’ for all his embarrassing verbal flubs, is now winning kudos for his speeches, even from Clinton speechwriters? Fact is, those who study these things say Bush’s speeches are better and more image-filled than those of the original plain speaker, Harry

John Leo

Samizdata’s Perry de Havilland takes on the E.U.’s windbag-of-the-month, Chris Patten, and leaves him in tatters. In

The Guardian keeps right on churning out the anti-U.S. vitriol, don’t it?

“A woman was arrested for

Breaking News: The Canadian pair gets a (shared) Gold. The French judge has been suspended. And figure skating is still

“Secretary of State Colin L. Powell strongly

Imcumbent-Hugging partisanship, reviled: The Cato Institute’s Daniel Henninger on the Shays-Meehan bill. Henninger begins his column with this amusing poke at Enron-related opportunism: Is there any truth to the rumor that one of the federal reforms likely to flow from the Enron scandal is that Congress will make daylight savings time permanent? Seriously, how can you not love a transcendental event like Enron? We may never know precisely what was