| Jack Shafer
It was passed to stop CIA turncoat Philip Agee and his comrades from naming the names of CIA operatives around the world. The law mostly focuses on government officials: Journalists can't be prosecuted unless they repeatedly and deliberately unmask covert agents, and, of course, the law only applies to U.S. publications. Once the act passed, fringe magazines such as the Covert Action Information Bulletin stopped naming names, and now we only hear mention of the act when a politically embarrassing leak surfaces in the press or, as in the case of the Novak-Wilson-Plame triangle, a politically motivated leak finds its way into print. I do not know of a single successful prosecution under the act. The hidden good news in the Wilson-Novak-Plame melodrama is that it disproves a thesis that jaundiced readers, myself included, have about the weakness Washington reporters have for anonymous sources bearing scoops.
Your Essential Guide to Ramadan TV
If you care for your sanity. Even the production company can't imagine audiences coping with three Shaheen offerings: Rumor has it this one might be shelved until next Ramadan, starting some time around 3-4 September, 2008. Nady El-Kolub El-Gareeha (Broken Hearts Club)Starring Rania Farid Shawki, Sawsan Badr, Dina Abdallah, Ahmed Khalil and Mohamed RiadDirected by Safwat El-ShokeiriYou know it had to happen: That's right, ladies and gentlemen, we (not-so?) proudly present Egypt's answer to Sex and the City. Jumping into the Manolo Blahniks made famous by Carrie Bradshaw — only with not-so-fabulous shoes, we suspect — is Rania Farid Shawki, who plays a famous journalist who also has a popular romance advice column. The series revolves around Shawki and her interaction with one of her readers, Dr.
Enterprise Products Partners' profits rise 22 percent
Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP, the second-largest U.S. pipeline partnership by market value, said fourth-quarter profit rose 22 percent as its network transported record volumes of natural gas liquids and other fuels. Net income rose to $161.9 million, or 30 cents a unit, from $132.8 million, or 25 cents, a year earlier, Enterprise said today in a statement. Distributable cash flow, a measure of the partnership's ability to fund payouts to unit holders, rose 9.2 percent to $262 million. For the year, the distributable cash flow was a record $1 billion Enterprise transported record volumes of gas liquids and other fuels on its more than 34,000 miles of pipelines. Its $630 million Independence Hub deepwater gas collection and processing facility in the Gulf of Mexico reached capacity in the quarter.
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