The Post Fast Takes column has two particularly interesting items: The Saudi Arabian crown prince who has been modernizing his country has not been seen for weeks. Rumors abound... The second tidbit informs that the alleged spy within the Trump camp is not unprecedented in politics. In 1964 the CIA's Howard Hunt, who would go on to Watergate infamy, infiltrated Barry Goldwater's camp. That doesn't make the current scandal less egregious.
Kudos to the Washington Capitals, who twice fought off elimination - and decades of playoff collapses - to defeat the Tampa Bay Lightning on the road in the Stanley Cup semi-finals. They advance to face first-year expansion team the Las Vegas Golden Knights. It will be their first appearance in the final since 1998. Many wags and fans believe a superstar's greatness is not validated unless he has been part of a champion. Alex Ovechkin, the greatest goal-scorer of his generation (607), now has the chance to shut those yahoo's up.
Not much action today at the floating books shop. My thanks to the gentleman who did a one-for-one swap of books in Russian, to local porter Rob, who donated five works of non-fiction on History; to the woman who bought Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever: The Making of a Happy Woman by Judge Judy Sheindlin; and to Natalia, who purchased three thrillers in Russian. She's wearing a wig these days, as she is undergoing chemotherapy. She seems in much better spirits than she did several weeks ago when she first told me of her plight.
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