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After the Palm Beach story appeared, feminists and other outraged readers picketed the paper's headquarters in midtown Manhattan. The New York tabloids, the Daily News and the Post -- neither of which has printed the alleged victim's name -- cluck-clucked at their august competitor in editorials for violating journalistic ethics. Even Dan Schwartz, the editor of the National Enquirer, which also did not print the woman's name, was claiming that "I think we took a more ethical standard than they...
Maybe the sky won't fall if we don't do something like this. But don't blame Chicken Little if it does. Cluck, cluck...
That perceived peculiarity is double-edged. On the one hand, some Yale alums still cluck over the spectacle of Giamatti's descent from academic grandeur to the commercial muck of professional sports. If there is a life for former Ivy League presidents, it should be conducted as unobtrusively as possible in a reputable embassy or blue-chip foundation. At the other extreme, certain tobacco-chewing, spit-on-the-hands, belly-up-to-the-bar baseball types wonder what in the hell a gabby professor is doing running a league and, next year, the whole show. Oh, yeah, Giamatti. Whattid...
...menu at Alejandra Mirano's restaurant on the dusty main street of Pantasma is as sparse as the surroundings. Brown beans, rice and corn tortillas are the staples, served sometimes with eggs from the hens that cluck about the bare concrete floor. The ancient refrigerator no longer works, so the syrupy sodas are served at room temperature, an oppressive 90 degrees F at midday in April, as the town awaits the onset of the annual rains...
...Vice President's men were quick to cluck over the Bush victory -- and to turn up the heat in an effort to rattle their opponent further. "Dole loves to dish it out," said Atwater, "but if something happens to him, he gets this spoilsport attitude." Appearing on television's MacNeil-Lehrer Report, Atwater bragged about the Bush-Sununu grass-roots strategy and said, "If Senator Dole would try to do the same thing, instead of all this bellyaching, he's probably going to do a lot better." Taking the bait, Bill Brock later growled, "Lee Atwater ought to grow...