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He reads!

At a recent news conference, when the U.S. President George Bush was asked whether he had read about Vice President Dick Cheney's subpoena to testify in the trial of former aide "Scooter" Libby, indicted in the outing of former CIA agent Valerie Plame, Bush replied, "I read it in the newspaper today, and it's an interesting piece of news." The New York Times is taking heart in the admission that he does, indeed, read newspapers — earlier statements notwithstanding. The Times stated: "Readers may be abandoning the printed versions, but over the last couple of years, at least one person seems to have started reading them, at least sometimes. He lives in the White House." In 2003, Bush told Fox's Brit Hume in an interview that he glances at headlines but rarely reads stories, preferring to be filled in by aides.

NIMI KURIAN

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