Gossip Roundup: Cheney’s Growl

• Names & Faces: Specter comments on Roberts: “It’s an opportunity to have a different approach of collegiality. I argued a case in the Supreme Court a few years back and Chief Justice Rehnquist ran a stopwatch, interrupted in mid-sentence. The word is he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word ‘if.’” [WP]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Cheney remained on vacation until Thursday. Begala: “You’re not going to send him to be comforter-in-chief. He’s the type of guy who would look at them and growl, ‘Life’s tough. Get back to work.’” [NYDN]
• Liz Smith: O’Reilly says Americans cannot depend on the government. [NYP]
• Page Six: Monica Lewinsky enrolls at the London School of Economics for a master’s degree in Social Psychology. [NYP]