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...They were rude...and they dismissed him. And he was furious and he was shaking...He threatened to get even." --Northwestern University professor Don Saari on ABC News, recounting Ted Kaczynksi's response to the refusal by Northwestern and the University of Illinois to publish his manuscript--five weeks before the first Unabomber attack occurred...
According to a 1994 Washington Post-ABC News survey, 59% of people who have reported encounters with flying saucers prefer Ross Perot to Bill Clinton or Bob Dole. When I read that not long ago, in a New Yorker piece by Michael Kelly, I told myself that the important thing was to avoid panic. There was no reason to go around clutching perfect strangers by the lapels and shouting, "Do you realize that if only people with flying-saucer experience vote, Ross Perot will be President of the United States...
...also wanted to avoid overinterpreting the decision of the Washington Post and ABC to dissect the political preference of UFO spotters in the first place. I assume that Perot has claimed that it was simply to embarrass him, a subtler version of polling people on the question "Which candidate can you most easily imagine rolling little steel balls around in his hand...
...full list of 1996-97 Nieman Fellows includes: Cohen; Lee; Read; Robert Blau, an editor/reporter at the Chicago Tribune; Mark Jaffe, an environmental reporter, and Marjorie Valburn, a staff writer, both at The Philadelphia Inquirer; Laura King from the Associated Press Tokyo Bureau; Terri Lichstein, a producer at ABC News; Myra Ming, a senior news producer at KTTV in Los Angeles; Deborah Steward from the Associated Press Moscow Bureau; Robert Vare, an articles editor at The New Yorker; and Paige Wilson, a reporter at The Charlotte Observer
Disney and ABC got rid of a nuisance, but Grant may be the real winner. When he returns to New York radio, as he surely will, he can blame the p.c. media for his firing. The rabid sorehead will be a professional martyr...