Word: partisans
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...right-wing historian whose work is dedicated to showing that Adolf Hitler has been misunderstood - and you make no secret of the fact that you enjoy the company of neo-Nazis - it may seem a little counterintuitive to sue for libel when you're accused of being a "Hitler partisan" and "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." And so it proved on Tuesday when a British judge dismissed a claim of defamation by historian David Irving against Penguin Books and U.S. academic Deborah Lipstadt over her 1994 book that slammed him as a Holocaust denier. Irving...
Education is "an issue that is particularly important to your less partisan, more independent-minded voters," said Ari Fleischer, a Bush spokesperson, in yesterday's New York Times...
...most American TV news shows, finally took place in the Pontifical Institute of Notre Dame, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau sent a murmur through the crowd by claiming, falsely, that the Pope had recognized Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. Tamimi's presentation, delivered in a harsh tone, was so bitterly partisan that the moderator felt the need to "remind everyone of the spirit in which we came here today, as religious people who can put aside our politics." The Pope sat through much of the meeting with his hand to his forehead, although whether out of fatigue, disappointment or despair...
...Seeing Mary Plain (Norton; 939 pages; $35), Frances Kiernan, a former fiction editor at the New Yorker, has written a portrait not only of McCarthy, the critic and novelist, but also of her literary generation. Kiernan's book teems with a splendid cast of characters--starting with McCarthy's Partisan Review crowd of the 1930s and '40s (Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Delmore Schwartz and Dwight Macdonald), then widening to include other figures in McCarthy's busy, contentious life, including Wilson, whom she called "the monster," her unexpected soul mate Hannah Arendt and dozens of gifted walk-ons, such as Robert...
When General Harrison Gray Otis acquired the Los Angeles Times in 1882, it was little more than a partisan, gossip-filled rag. Over the next century, his son-in-law Harry Chandler and his descendants shaped it into the well-respected newspaper it is today. From their humble beginnings, the Los Angeles Times and its parent Times Mirror Co. have grown into a media powerhouse with several publications and television stations under their control. But after the announcement March 13 that the Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune and various other newspapers and television stations, will...