Theresa Heinz Kerry, it would appear, shares her husband's propensity for flip-floppityness, "diasvowing" a cookie recipe that her staff submitted to Family Circle magazine last month:

"Mrs. Heinz Kerry had originally submitted a recipe called Yummy Wonders, but, according to Family Circle, its test kitchen said the recipe did not work. When the magazine called her press office and asked if there had been a mistake, the press office sent the pumpkin cookie recipe without consulting her, said her press secretary, Marla Romash."

How does a cookie recipe "not work"? I could see the test kitchen saying, "this recipe makes some crappy cookies," but "this recipe doesn't work"? "We tried everything we could think of -- short of putting them in the oven -- but no matter what we did, they just wouldn't change from dough into cookies. We, the test kitchen, are stymied."