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Frank del Olmo, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a Nieman Fellow this year, moderated the discussion...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who barely won the nomination, was labeled by the leading columnist of the day, "A very nice man who would very much like to be president." Not only did John F. Kennedy '40 barely win the nomination, his margin of victory in the general election was so small it has been alleged that he only won because of political chicanery by Daley's Chicago political machine. And our current president was best known as a joke in a Johnny Carson monologue before he managed to scale the White House walls on his second...
Former fellows include Washington Post columnist David S. Broder, feminist Betty Freidan, current presidential candidate Sen. Paul Simon (D--III.) and former Congressman Bella Abzug...
...like most of his loyal readers, you'll love him. You'll also hate him from time to time. After all, Kinsley has a reputation for infuriating conservatives and liberals alike, except when he is busy delighting them. Apart from writing in the New Republic, Kinsley has been a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and has written for the Washington Monthly, Harper's and FORTUNE. No one is safe from his bite. After dedicating his 1987 collection of writings, Curse of the Giant Muffins (Summit Books; $17.95), to his parents, Kinsley added, "Any factual errors or lapses of judgment...
KENNEDY'S VENDETTA screamed the headline of a biting front-page editorial in the Herald. "Was it something I said, Fat Boy?" asked Herald Columnist Howie Carr. IT'S WAR ON POST BUSTERS, added the Post. Underscoring the gravity of the controversy, Murdoch suspended his usual practice of shunning the limelight and went on Cable News Network's Crossfire program to make his case personally. "We're keeping the Boston Herald in spite of Senator Kennedy," he said, vowing that he would sell his small Boston TV station if necessary. Murdoch is not, however, willing to give...