Shoe Thief!!!! and Time to Decide for the Bancrofts

Last night, I found my “Timberland” pair was also gone! Thief!!!!

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I finished “Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate” and immediately started (what else?) “All the President’s Men.” In the page of acknowledgements, the name of Taylor Branch appears.

For Shepard, it was very lucky for the identity of “Deep Throat” to have been disclosed by the time the book was published.

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From the WSJ: Tuesday's late-night decision by the board of Dow Jones & Co. to endorse News Corp.'s $5 billion offer for the publisher sets the stage for a dramatic meeting of the company's controlling shareholder, the Bancroft family, to consider the future of the company it has controlled for more than a century.
The Bancrofts, who have a 64% voting stake in Dow Jones, plan to meet Monday in Boston to hear a presentation about News Corp.'s offer. The family will then have about a week to make a decision, a time frame requested by News Corp., which wants to hear "promptly" whether enough Bancroft family members are willing to back the deal, Dow Jones said in a statement late Tuesday. Dow Jones owns The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and Dow Jones Newswires.

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Miyamoto Kenji (宮本顕治), a long-time leader of the Communist Party, has died at 98.