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-- The Wall Street Journal

"Pulls you in like a good sports story"

-- The New York Times Book Review

"Endearingly frank... jubilant... lighthearted and fast-paced"

-- New York Newsday

"A surprisingly touching memoir"

-- Entertainment Weekly

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-- Associated Press

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-- Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I haven't seen Jeopardy! since I was a kid, and yet I was charmed and amused by Bob Harris's fascinating and surprisingly suspenseful book. Through sheer force of personality, he takes this brainy TV show and makes it funny and easy to relate to."

-- Ira Glass, creator and host, This American Life

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-- Orson Scott Card, 4-time Hugo Award winner, author of Ender's Game

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-- A. J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All

"A masterful job of describing the feel of Jeopardy! in the heat of battle... I knew Bob was a great guy and a fantastic Jeopardy! player. Now I've found that he's also a wonderful writer. I think I'm starting to hate him."

-- Brad Rutter, top money-winner in Jeopardy! history

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Who Hates Whom:
Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts,
and Various Things Blowing Up —
A Woefully Incomplete Guide™

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— Boston Globe

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— New York Observer

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— Ken Jennings, author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

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— John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise
and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

"All three [presidential] candidates should read all three of these [recommended] books, but McCain gets first crack at Bob Harris's "Who Hates Whom“... a lighthearted overview of the insurrections and civil wars in the world today."

— Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought, in the New York Times Book Review

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Thursday, 17 May 2007

Keeping it as simple as possible, since it's a new Watergate almost every day with this crowd:

(1) Alberto Gonzales's Justice Department considered firing 26 US Attorneys, not just the eight that Gonzales testified to under oath just last week. If you came in late, the Bush administration has sought to stuff the federal justice system, Third World autocracy style, with party loyalists, and the Attorney General of the United States is a liar.

(2) On a separate issue, Gonzales also pushed his predecessor, John Ashcroft, to sign off on a plainly illegal domestic surveillance program. But Ashcroft -- John freaking "Let The Eagle Soar" Ashcroft -- wouldn't go for it, and the Justice Department -- which had itself concluded that the program was illegal -- damn near had mass resignations in protest of the program. But the illegal warrantless eavesdropping continued.

Ashcroft was in the hospital at the time, and his duties had been assumed by Acting Atty. Gen. James Comey, whose testimony this week might soon equal John Dean's in historic importance. Gonzales' rush to Ashcroft's bedside -- accompanied by Bush's Chief of Staff Andrew Card -- was an attempt to circumvent Comey's input and get a signature from a previously reliable Bush team player.

Bush was asked today, point-blank, about his personal involvement, his answer was a complete dodge, hiding behind 9-11 while refusing even to address the simple inquiry about propriety and his own responsibility.

Watch for yourself:

(3) As Glenn Greenwald points out, since we can be certain that Bush ordered the surveillance to continue, despite his own Justice Department's conclusion that the program was illegal, the US President knowingly broke the law.

PS -- As of the evening of May 17, neither ABC nor CBS have so much as mentioned Comey's testimony.