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It was, Woodward said, something Powell and his deputy, Dick Armitage, called the Pottery Barn rule: 'You break it, you own it.'
Not so, the company protested in a statement, saying broken items are seen as 'the cost of doing business and (we) would not require a customer to pay for an item that he or she inadvertently broke in our store.'
Being dissed by a retail chain specializing in ceramics and kitchenware summed up the week for Powell.

Bizarre! Nuclear Bazaar
4Corners reports that the most alarming scenario – the possibility that Pakistan’s secrets might now be in Al Qaeda’s hands – is being seriously contemplated by weapons specialists.
· Specialist Secrets [link first seen at 4 Corners]
· See Also Divorced from reality? A collection of Orwellian prescient observations
· See Also http://slate.msn.com/id/2099277: The Condensed Bob Woodward - Slate reads Plan of Attack so you don't have to
· See Also Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Hero's 'Crime' Was Making Us Safer...
· See Also Vanunu was guilty, of course, of telling the truth: Israel's WMDs seem to be accepted, unreported and beyond criticism