Piling On.

This tiresome who's-leaving-the-Cabinet-and-when story is finally starting to get interesting. Last week, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters to stop asking when Colin Powell was going to make his long-rumored exit. Of course, they didn't. Yesterday, some dogged journalist brought up a moldy report from last May about how Powell was supposedly "tired." That, said Boucher, in the kind of terms that diplomats generally try to avoid, is "a pile of crap."