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...American Marines killed by terrorists in Beirut had "died in shame." He was overheard claiming that he had "tried to kick a little ass" in the debate, then made light of the gaffe, apparently in the belief that it would add macho to his preppie image. All this led Columnist Joseph Kraft, who has admired Bush, to write, "Unless the real George stands up, the general impression will be of a foolish fellow unfit to be President...
Pulicar Prize-winning columnist Meg Greenfield told a Law School audience last night that media should police its coverage of political campaigns more closely...
...Washington Post editor and Newsweek columnist pointed to stories about alleged Mafia connections of Rep. Geraldine Parraro's (D-NY) dead father-in-law as one example of the media investing insignificant events with undue importance...
...evidence of a revived interest in manners and elegance, a number of people would argue the exact opposite, that manners continue to get worse and are nearing the point of invisibility. "Manners have taken a beating these last 25 years," says Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers, the advice columnist. "It isn't just that men aren't opening car doors for women or offering them seats on subways or buses. It goes deeper than that. The high crime rate is one thing that discourages openness and courtesy to strangers. The chances are that a man who takes...
...style between the two editors could hardly be more acute. Winship is elfin, effervescent, demonstrative and unassumingly rumpled. He tells stories of his financially modest youth and calls himself a "swamp Yankee." Janeway is shy, sardonic, reserved and elegant. He has the seigneurial manner befitting a son of Economics Columnist Eliot Janeway and Author Elizabeth Janeway (Powers of the Weak). Perhaps the only obvious characteristic the men share is that like dozens of their staffers they are graduates of Harvard, yet they agree on the problems the paper must correct...