Word: fangs
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Kahn, who has never run for office, is a tough target for Barr, whose fang-baring campaign style is hard to use against a man with no record to attack. Describing himself as a conservative to the right of Clinton and Al Gore, Kahn supports gun rights--a litmus test in his district. And he can paint Barr as a man devoted to faraway causes. Kahn has made a lot of the fact that in the same fortnight Barr was chastising a Texas military base for holding a "Wiccan" service, one that a constituent complained promoted witchcraft, the local Lockheed...
...Would a Fang Examiner be anything like a serious rival to the Chronicle? Fang admits he would cut publication of the paper in the Bay Area outside San Francisco--and give the city a local community paper instead. "You can't be all things to all people," he says. "Hearst's challenge is to create a world-class Chronicle. My challenge is to build an Examiner that's going to be unabashedly San Franciscan." But publishing daily is a costly enterprise. Experts believe it will take around $50 million a year to turn the Examiner into a morning publication...
Whether or not the Fang deal is blocked, it's the worst of times for Examiner employees. "Boy, have our failings been shoved in our face lately," wrote Examiner columnist Rob Morse after spending three days in the courtroom listening to embarrassing revelations like the horse trading with Brown. "The San Francisco Examiner is dying, and it can't even die with dignity." William Randolph Hearst, who once dubbed his paper "the monarch of the dailies," would probably agree...
...aggression, competitiveness and risk taking, things we still think of as male behavior, are linked to the fact that men's bodies produce far more testosterone than women's bodies. His answer--a lot--was offered more as an intuition than a conclusion, but it produced a spate of fang baring among some higher primates in the media and scientific world, since it implies that gender differences owe more to biology than many people would like to believe. Three researchers wrote the Times to complain that Sullivan had overstated their thinking. In the online magazine Slate, columnist Judith Shulevitz attacked...
...paper. But in this age of continually updated headlines available on your desktop, there's little demand for the newsboy in front of the trolley stop shouting the day's headlines to afternoon commuters, and the 120-year-old Examiner's readership has dwindled to about 100,000 daily. Fang has said that as owner he would break the paper away from the Chronicle and convert it to a competing daily. Hearst has offered to subsidize the venture to the tune of $66 million over three years to make the paper solvent. Reilly, however, argued that the Chronicle has such...