TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: The publication of the RPH book is followed by the book tour, which leads to the next fact about the RPH:

SOLUTION: The publication of the RPH book is followed by the book tour, leading to:

PROBLEM: Secretary Powell recalled that Wolfowitz-not Rumsfeld-argued that Iraq was ultimately the source of the terrorist problem and should therefore be attacked.

SOLUTION: Secretary Powell recalled that Wolfowitz argued that Iraq was ultimately the source of the terrorist problem.

PROBLEM: One of the few truths universally acknowledged about Flytrap is that presidential secretary Betty Currie deserves our sympathy: an honest, loyal civil servant dragooned into a scandal she had nothing to do with.

SOLUTION:
One of the universally acknowledged facts about Flytrap is that Betty Currie deserves our sympathy: an honest, loyal civil servant dragged into a scandal.