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...example, or that 20% of Jesse Jackson's black voters had registered within the past several months-but the statistics belie the often impulsive, unarticulated motives for voting. Last week, in an effort to restore some mystery and fun to the electoral process, Chicago Tribune Columnist Mike Royko offered some advice to voters confronted by exit pollsters. "Don't give them one honest answer," he wrote. "When they ask you why you voted for Hart, say it is because he is so mature and serious that he reminds you of your grandfather. Or say you voted for Mondale...
...call Richard Rovere a political reporter would be to call Tocqueville a travel writer or Boswell a gossip columnist. "I'm really not especially interested in politics," Rovere insists in this posthumous collection of previously unpublished reflections and autobiographical snippets. Instead; his quarry is "American life in all its wonder and looniness...
Lang has written at least as much during his information campaigns. His "cc list" of correspondents, which ranges from OMB Director David Stockman and columnist Jack Anderson to President Bok, transmits Lang's views on issues to every newspaper, government official, book reviewer and professor whose involvement he gets wind...
...side of the dollar, portraying a bald eagle, is pleasing. But the opposite, or "heads" side, contains no heads at all. It features the bare torsos of a male and a female athlete, apparently standing atop the Los Angeles Coliseum, the principal site of the Games. Sniffed Coin Columnist Ed Reiter: "It is quite possibly one of the ugliest coins in U.S. history...
Punitive damages, which make up the bulk of many of the biggest awards, are intended to discourage false and harmful reporting, and thus by their nature raise difficult constitutional questions about interference with editorial freedom. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, who is also a lecturer at Harvard Law School, argued, "The vindication of one's good name does not require colossal verdicts. Damages awarded without effective limit in libel may violate the First Amendment." The concern is more than theoretical: a libel suit against the Alton Telegraph (circ. 137,000) in Illinois forced ? the 148-year-old newspaper...