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Everyone has his or her secrets. For now let us try to keep them.

Keep the secret in your head and let everybody know is -- at least according to Allure mag -- the way to communicate one's own sexiness. This assumes that you are actually feeling sexy. So, it's not the body or the clothes. It is what you believe ... although it is also likely that if you have to tell people what you believe about yourself they might not believe your secret.

When turmoil rules no secret is safe and nothing is presumed innocent of secrets. And so, with the continuing problems in recreating Iraq, there comes both the secret of the British troops being held out of harms way through a secret deal with Moqtada al-Sadr and a new book by Ron Suskind, The Way of the World, that a purported secret link tying Saddam Hussein by the Bush administration to the destruction of New York's Twin Towers was a government sanctioned forgery.

It is true they aren't exactly life or death secrets revealed. Still, it wasn't until news began circulating that Circuit City -- bored with firing older, better paid [better informed] employees -- had banned Mad Magazine from its shelves because execs read four pages of unflattering parody (instead of flattering parody?) that there was no longer a cloak of darkness over the knowledge that anyone read Mad Magazine and that Circuit City sold magazines. Of course, one can't wholly rule out that nobody knowing either of these things was a catalyst for a (secret) joint publicity ploy.

Less than five months left until the big mystery about "The Secret Millionaire" is revealed. The Fox network will broadcast the show in December, Based on the British series, the American version of a richie doing good in a poor neighborhood by a secret selection process of who is most deserving will no doubt add extra glam and glitz and (scripted) pathos. But how exactly do they convince people nothing is going on when they drop some guy/gal who obviously doesn't belong in the neighborhood and is being followed by cameras? It is not important who gets the money, but the secret of how they fool people will be compelling ... once ... hopefully.

CIA secrets or fictions? How to tell unless The Company comes clean (less likely than winged pigs making bacon in midair) and refutes with evidence the dysfunction strewn across the pages of The Human Factor, pseudononymous author Ishmael Jones's book with -- oddly enough -- a cover offering a different title.

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So far, the only CIA reaction is to compare it (unfavorably) to the writings of master literatuer Graham Greene. But does it reveal the unknown about the Iraqi mess?

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A secret nobody knows about doesn't really do any good. So, when President Bush changes the law in secret, it only means something when somebody says "hey, that is illegal," and he is able to say "if you could look at the law ('which you can't because I won't show it to you') you would see that I have made it legal ... and I don't care what congress says. Similarly, the losers Winn had a show that nobody watched, but now they have a secret society whose only purpose is to get people to tell friends about the secret -- so that more people will watch the show:

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Nyah, nyah, nyah.... It's a good defense when someone says you've done something secret and bad. The Pakistani leaders don't seem that bothered that the U.S. knows that at least some elements of the intelligence service are helping Al-Quaeda. After all, they are still getting money for planes whose only purpose is to harden the military in case there is war with India -- the planes will not aid in rooting out the terrorists the U.S. seeks. And baseball's A-Rod (a dick?) says that his various sexual affairs aren't a secret and don't matter anyway ... at least in terms of his (soon-to-be-ex-) wife getting more money out of him.

Coming soon to a secret court near you. Secret officials will present secret evidence that can include your secrets if they can be tapped on phone or copies from a computer. And they can. And, apparently, that's the new U.S. "security act."

They may be wrong when saying, "you can't take it with you." That at least is the new working theory into the death of moneylicious adventurer Steve Fossett, who was declared dead in February. It is possible, some suggest, that the reason his crashed plane was never found, despite a month-long, record setting search-and-rescue attempt, is that it didn't crash. It's a "new math" sort of thing with circumstantial evidence about his disappearance adding up to a way out of financial reversals and personal crises involving at least two mistresses of whom his wife of 38 years was unaware.