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...points? Ouch...
Wall Street wonders too. AT&T stock, already in the dumper, fell 9% in the two days after Walter was named, clipping $5.7 billion off the embattled giant's market value. Ouch. Once so safe it was considered perfect for widows and orphans, AT&T remains the nation's most widely held stock, with 3.2 million shareholders...
...Ouch. Block that bloomless rose. But among subsequent columns was one in February titled "Let Dole Lead." Helprin recommended there that Dole, the wily legislative fox, drive Clinton bonkers with bills he would look bad vetoing. By this time the G.O.P.'s future was in danger and whether it was lost was pretty much up to the old rhinoceros. Dole read the column and liked it. In April he met with Helprin, an aloof, inscrutable character who lives on a 200-acre farm in New York's Hudson Valley, and Helprin became the first person in years to give voice...
...Ouch," yelled an amused onlooker as he watched somebody inside crash off a computerized skiing course...
...Ouch. He has a point. Part of the problem is that it is easier for journalists to analyze the politics of an issue than the issue itself. When Bill Clinton was planning to restore relations with Vietnam, for example, the New York Times (like other outlets) led its story with the political perils facing a President who had avoided the draft. Fallows cites a series of similar cases: the crime bill's funding for more cops on the beat, the debate over immigration, raising Medicare premiums, ending welfare entitlements...